What is a “Safe” Drinking Level?
Problems with alcohol are better defined in terms of the problems themselves than some arbitrary amount consumed.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Helping Staff Manage Boundaries
Countertransference issues can be a genuine hazard in our field. If allowed to continue, it can lead to some pretty spectacular incidents.
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“Weak” Evidence for Prescription Opioid Effectiveness
These powerful drugs have escaped the constraints of legal use and become widely misused
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Finding the Right Opioid Treatment Program
Some of what patients hear is gossip and folklore, something for which the addict community is famous. But there is a wide variation in quality among OTPs.
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Is a Good Intervention Dramatic?
The technique works. But it doesn’t make for very entertaining TV, which is why they usually leave that part on the cutting room floor.
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