Stigma Keeps People From Seeking Help
Alcoholism is stigmatized. So is drug addiction. So is mental illness. And that’s an important obstacle to recovery.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Making Phone Contacts More Meaningful (Marketing)
In most cases, our only pre-admission contact with prospective patients and families is by telephone.
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Why Don’t Physicians Refer People for Treatment?
A patient said he’d visited a local family clinic three times in the past year for drinking-related problems and the physician never once mentioned that he needed treatment.
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Is There a Cure?
When I think of a ‘cure’ for alcoholism, I mean the ability to drink without further problems.
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Rural Areas and ASAM Criteria
We keep running into situations where ASAM criteria don’t seem to apply.
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