Ketamine users are in treatment, but…
...they aren’t aware of KUD and apparently, neither are physicians and staff in the ERs and clinics they do visit when suffering the consequences of the disorder.
Category: Programs
Keep the program going, find referrals, work with families, maintain certification, get the best staff, report to corporate leadership, oh, yeah… and help people with addictive disease establish recovery. It’s a big menu. Here’s some help.
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Stigmatized
Logically, the disease model of addiction shouldn’t threaten anyone’s belief in their own ability to recover, any more than a diagnosis of diabetes or hypertension suggests you can’t successfully recover from those illnesses.
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More on Incentives
One program complained that the incentive program seemed to work best with people who were already more motivated, and not as well with more resistant clients.
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Do Incentives Work?
And we don’t want to discover that we’ve inadvertently incentivized cheating.
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Teletreatment Update
I get frequent questions from providers unsure how well their telehealth clients are actually doing, in terms of common measures like, say, substance use. Are they drinking, still using drugs?
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Rehashing: Medical Cannabis in Treatment
Turned out he was paid to steer others to his cannabis provider.
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Sober Living
Their presence sometimes go unnoticed because it’s the problem children that wind up in the media, the result of an incident or neighborhood complaints.
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Confide in Us
One side sees the youth in terms of potential risk to society, while the other experiences the same youth as a victim in need of healing.
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Opioid Tapering
Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
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The Angry DWI Client
I realized it wasn’t really me he was angry with. It was himself. For getting caught.
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Hiring the Right People
They sought a trust relationship with the rehab– one that would continue through future referrals as well as the current one.
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Fundraising 101
These volunteers work for the welfare of the community by supporting the important work of your organization.
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Bad Boards
I ask myself if this Board, as presently constituted, is capable of taking the organization to that level of success.
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