Showing posts with label rehab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rehab. Show all posts
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Take It Easy

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One day at a time.
Monday, June 20, 2016

Addiction Treatment Industry at the Crossroads

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How unethical treatment shills hunt down patients. Check this account at Huffington Post by Ryan Grim: " Addiction Treatment Indus...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Why Will Power Fails

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How to strengthen your self-control. (First published August 12, 2013) Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate ...
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Sunday, July 20, 2014

Drugs and Disease: A Look Forward

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First published 2/18/2014. Former National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director Alan Leshner has been vilified by many for referring...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Gone in June

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Alcohol takes a friend. What good does it do: You write about addiction, research it, think about it, formulate new ideas about it. Y...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Going Deep: Surgery For Addiction?

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Controversial DBS technique shows early promise for Parkinson’s, Tourette’s. Bielefeld, Germany— The third in an irregular series ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Drug Craving, or How to Be Your Own Worst Enemy

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Plus the disease model, warts and all. Bielefeld, Germany— The second in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, N...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

What Mark Kleiman Wants You To Know About Drugs

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The public policy guru guiding state legalization efforts. Mark A. R. Kleiman is the Professor of Public Policy at UCLA, editor of the ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Do Addicts Benefit From Chronic Care Management?

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Controversial JAMA study questions orthodox addiction treatment.  What is the best way to treat addiction? The conventional wisdom h...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

More Hard Facts About Addiction Treatment

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“Yes, we take your insurance.” Recent reportage, such as Anne Fletcher’s book, Inside Rehab , has documented the mediocre application o...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Addiction Rehab: Everything is Broken

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Down the rabbit hole in search of effective treatment. When I first began researching drugs and addiction years ago, a Seattle doctor t...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

How to Kick Everything

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Christopher Kennedy Lawford on r ecovery. Christopher Kennedy Lawford’s ambitious, one-size-fits-all undertaking is titled Recover to L...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Broken Treatment: How the Addiction Industry is Failing its Clients

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It’s not medical. It's not psychiatric. What is it? 1. Most clinicians who treat addicted patients are counselors, not physicians; thu...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

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“The penal colony’s prime scribe.” “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.” —John Berryman, 1971 A year befo...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Interview with Deni Carise, Chief Clinical Officer of Phoenix House

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Why addiction treatment works—if you let it. This time around, our “ Five-Question Interview” series features clinical psychologist Deni ...
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