Professionally Suspicious: Clinicians & Recovery Fellowships
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.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Addiction Treatment via US Healthcare System: The Downside
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.
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Introducing Newcomers to 12-Step Fellowship
AA and NA weren’t designed by professionals and they do not operate like professionally-developed behavioral therapy programs.
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Stigma in the Bigger Picture
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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Outpatient Follies
The experience of addicts and alcoholics, particularly at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, makes it clear that we could use more inpatient resources, not fewer.
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