“Weak” Evidence for Prescription Opioid Effectiveness
These powerful drugs have escaped the constraints of legal use and become widely misused
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
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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My Counselors are Being Manipulated!
Counselors and therapists are — and I’m generalizing shamelessly here, so forgive me — warm, empathetic, even sympathetic by nature.
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Lowering “First Week” ASA Rates
Crisis motivates addicts to seek treatment. But the addict’s motivation to remain in treatment decreases as he feels better.
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