Blogs
We have four blogs on our site, each with its own focus:
How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (Families) is a question-and-answer format blog that provides help for families struggling with an addiction problem.
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How to Talk so Someone With Addiction Will Listen (Clinicians) is a question-and answer format blog serving as a discussion forum for treatment clinicians & recovery pros.
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Tips for Treatment Programs is a question-and-answer format blog that gives practical tips for people who want to run excellent treatment & recovery programs.
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Thinking About Addiction is a more traditional “sharing our thoughts” blog that responds to news, information, and whatever’s happening for us right now. It’s too long a title to call it “Thinking About Addiction, Treatment, and Recovery” but that’s a better description.
Here’s a feed of all the posts to all of our blogs:
The Vape Ban That Wasn’t
Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.
Topics: adolescent addiction, vaping
Opioids in International Relations
Voter perception and the fear of a public relations black eye is always a motivating factor in politics.
Topics: drug trafficking, opioids
Rogue Pharmacies
Don’t chains have quality control mechanisms to alert headquarters to abnormal patterns in prescription use?
Topics: drug trafficking, opioids, prescription medications
Cannabis and Mental Health
Even if it turns out to be ineffective for patients, buying cannabis products certainly gives a boost to the sales figures.
Topics: cannabis, prescription medications, research
Can Legal Cannabis Fix Vaping Illness?
Legalization solves problems related to the legal status of a drug, but has far less impact on the problems related to the nature of the substance itself.
Drugstore Cowboy
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
Topics: consequences, legal problems, opioids, physical effects