Case Study: Medical Pot
Alcoholics have never had much success giving up drinking while using some other sedative. Often it results in a problem with the second substance.
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Posted by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 14, 2014 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Alcoholics have never had much success giving up drinking while using some other sedative. Often it results in a problem with the second substance.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 7, 2014 | Addiction Clinicians | 4 |
You might as well write ‘I don’t want you to go to AA’ in big letters on the wall behind the therapist’s chair. It’s about that obvious.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 4, 2014 | Public Policy, Treatment | 0 |
The reality is that if we’d had to rely solely on the healthcare system, a lot of people who are in recovery today would simply never have made it.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 31, 2014 | Addiction Clinicians, People in Recovery | 0 |
AA and NA weren’t designed by professionals and they do not operate like professionally-developed behavioral therapy programs.
Read MorePosted by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 28, 2014 | Public Policy | 1 |
This is the sort of reasoning that leads unthinking legislators to chop funds for substance abuse services whenever there’s a budget shortfall on the horizon. It’s not based on return on investment from treatment, which research demonstrates is phenomenal.
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