Limits of Harm Reduction
We either do what works, as challenging as that may be, or we accept the consequences of failure.
Category: Treatment
Investments, costs, regulations, laws, courts and prisons– what helps? What’s useless or worse- harmful? What’s the cost to the taxpayer? And the economy? And the families? And, oh, yes… the people suffering from addictive disease?
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Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
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Rehab for Pain Patients
Simply bringing up the possibility of ‘doing without’ could be immensely threatening.
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Safe Injection in the Big Apple
Do you want them here with us, in range of immediate help? Or lying dead in the bathroom of your local fast-food joint?
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Tapering off opioids
There appears to be good evidence for relying on an extended taper off opioids versus a more rapid process. Instead of fast cessation of use, the opioid is deliberately reduced on a preset schedule.
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In the Wilderness
I doubt ‘tough love’ was ever meant to be that tough. It’s all in how the programs interpret it.
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Getting Treatment: Who Decides?
On the other side of the equation, many in the insurance industry were unimpressed. Who’s supposed to pay for all that? they wanted to know. It won’t be us.
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A Bad Outcome– and Avoidable
It may be that psychotherapy itself needs greater definition. The National Institutes for Mental Health define it online as “a term for a variety of treatment techniques that aim to help a person identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behavior.”
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A Tribe Deals with Addiction
It’s clear that in addition to all the helpful services and programs, the Lummi are also willing to make use of available leverage when necessary to gain compliance.
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Ketamine for AUD?
“How many fewer days?” was my question. Looks like about 10%.
So if the subject ordinarily drank every day, they eliminated one drinking day in ten?
TMS for alcoholism?
For me, it was encouraging to see how far science has come in its understanding of the neurological underpinnings of alcoholism.
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Happy in Rehab
You’d be surprised how much laughter occurs, mostly at oneself. People feel supported, instead of judged.
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MAT for Meth?
If Medicaid, for instance, expanded approval of naltrexone injections to include methamphetamine, that would make the combination more useful to addiction treatment.
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