Treatment

As any case manager knows, making a referral can be a challenge, since many fall by the wayside during transition to another provider, different therapist, etc.

From a patient’s viewpoint, physicians can be somewhat blase’ about risks associated with a medication.

It may be that kratom is a drug that some can use without much difficulty, while for others, it becomes pathological.

Like a stroke patient who suddenly finds himself needing to relearn basic skills that were once automatic, it may require a level of personal commitment unseen for many years.

One in three users reported daily or near-daily consumption, close to triple what it was in the early 1990’s.

I’m sure some is used to suppress withdrawal, but if it’s possible to get high, then you have to figure people are doing that, too.

Treatment is a formative time for a recovering addict—the ideas that seem to save us end up staying with us.

Many physicians don’t want to offer opioid maintenance. They’re happy to refer out, to an addictionologist or psychiatrist with training.

Clinicians… feel as if they’re always missing at least one extremely important tool that would make all the difference.