Bipolar & Addicted
“somewhere between 45% and 70%...who have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder will have at some point in their lifetime met the criteria for a substance use disorder.”
Category: Addiction Clinicians
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What Makes An Effective Therapist?
…the most reliable recipe for a successful therapy experience is that strong therapeutic alliance plus a therapist able to explain the problem and the process skillfully, along with a treatment approach that the patient finds believable.
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Is Treatment via Telehealth Effective?
I noticed early on that some clinicians appeared to acclimate to the telehealth model far more easily than other did.
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Senior Day
I still ran a treatment center, I might seriously consider targeting a group specifically to the needs of seniors, especially those with co-occurring disorders. It’s an underserved population that often doesn’t feel comfortable interacting with younger SUD patients.
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The Meaning of Trauma
…treat the two as independent and coequal in the clinical picture. Address them via an integrated treatment plan.
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How Sports Betting Could Affect Addiction Treatment
current estimates are that an estimated 1% of Americans suffer from a severe gambling problem. Including some 750,000 who are between ages 14 and 21.
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One study went viral, the other did not
Bad intent is not required for an article or broadcast segment to qualify as potentially harmful misinformation. It only needs to be present in the most provocative way in the right forum.
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Inexplicably Drunk
Of course, clinicians who work with offenders are accustomed to the occasional client who shows up stubbornly insisting that he or she had consumed no alcohol whatsoever before arrest.
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Living with a Label
“When you put a name to something, you gain a certain degree of power over it,” a psychologist told me, during a workshop on addictions.
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Curious about Sobriety
Yes, to an addiction counselor it will seem reminiscent of the control strategies employed by many folks who eventually wind up in treatment.
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The BPD Question
I remember when this was a debate within psychiatric circles around alcoholism, back when that disease was seen as a symptom of emotional problems.
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Another Approach to Pain
Somehow, experts believe, the brain of the chronic pain patient has “learned” to interpret certain stimuli as a threat, accompanied by danger messages in the form of pain.
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When the Grieving Doesn’t End
In general, the pathology of prolonged grief features intense feelings of longing for or preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased– for example, on most days or even daily over a period of time.
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