Persuasion in Prevention
Kids in the audience already know someone who uses drugs without appearing to suffer much from it. Assertions to the contrary by some stranger are automatically dismissed.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Changing the Tipping Point
Try thinking of recovery as a learning process based in experience rather than the acquisition of information.
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New Club Drugs
Then again, there was a time when heroin addiction was primarily an urban phenomenon, and that didn’t last.
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Doctors and Addiction
If by chance the patient didn’t fit the physician’s preconception of an addict– he or she was a respected member of the community, for example– then the doctor often fell into the enabler role.
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Pain Conundrum
It takes thirty seconds to write a prescription… that fits very well into a scheduled 15 minute office visit.
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