Opioid Maintenance: Life Sentence?
Informed client choice means accurate information about the likely outcome of decisions made early in treatment.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Is This “Recovery?”
Instead of becoming inspired to turn his life around, he seems to have figured, “OK, crisis averted. Let’s go get a beer.”
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Six Things You Can Do While Your Loved One’s in Treatment
Too often our own hopes, dreams, and aspirations have been shunted aside.
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Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 8
Even the most recalcitrant drinker can appreciate the desirability of avoiding still more consequences. It’s a side door around some of the alcoholic’s denial.
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Intervention at the ER, Part 2
It isn’t that big a challenge; you simply add a basic questionnaire on the subject to your intake paperwork.
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