Category: Programs

One of the oldest diseases in the world, and we still don’t know as much as we should about its causes, effects, and how to treat it- much less cure it. What we do know, and what we’re learning, ends up here:

Programs

How Long Is Too Long? Board-wise.

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 18, 2025 | Programs | 0 |

Longtime members may become proprietary towards the organization, and resist much-needed improvements on the grounds that "we’ve always done it this way."

Advocates In Action

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 30, 2025 | Programs | 0 |
Ketamine users are in treatment, but…

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 12, 2025 | Programs | 0 |
Drugs in Jail

by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 3, 2022 | Programs | 0 |
Treatment & the Fellowships

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 18, 2021 | Programs | 0 |
Fellowship in Action

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 16, 2021 | Programs | 0 |

The Nicotine-Pot Connection

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 13, 2021 | Programs | 0 |

Maybe those hours spent in activities where you couldn’t smoke did make a difference for some.

An Update on Business Ethics

by C. Scott McMillin | May 24, 2021 | Programs, Treatment | 0 |

How could any treatment program anywhere assure its customers that drugs and alcohol were behind them once for all?

Stigmatized

by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 18, 2021 | Programs | 0 |

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.

More on Incentives

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 26, 2020 | Programs | 0 |

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.

Do Incentives Work?

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 26, 2020 | Programs | 0 |

And we don’t want to discover that we’ve inadvertently incentivized cheating.

Teletreatment Update

by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 31, 2020 | Programs | 0 |

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?

Rehashing: Medical Cannabis in Treatment

by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 23, 2020 | Programs | 0 |

Turned out he was paid to steer others to his cannabis provider.

Sober Living

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 18, 2020 | Programs | 3 |

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.