Treatment

Maybe it’s just one of those things that alcoholics and addicts feel they have to try before they settle down to face the challenges of actual recovery– which turns out not to be all that frickin’ easy.

Many treatment programs moved away from medication precisely because it wasn’t helping.

Suppose you were in the audience listening to someone else deliver the talk. What would get your attention? What would you enjoy learning about?

If Project MATCH had it right, and all three work but none works significantly better than the others– then what’s all the argument about?

Few clinicians believed that street crack addicts could succeed as outpatients, but the demand for residential care was never fully met because of, you know, budget considerations.

This is really about a continuous process of change. The unifying force is the addict’s subjective experience.

The treatment population is jam-packed with vulnerable people and families desperately looking for magic solutions to a genuinely challenging problem like recovery.

We’re in a drug epidemic with no South American cartels or Afghan drug lords to vilify.

Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.

What does a place like that have in common with a big-city program filled with homeless addicts who have multiple social problems and co-occurring disorders and perhaps haven’t held a job in decades?