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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Stigma Behind the Stethoscope
There’s no shortage of stories among nurses and doctors about a friend or family member who went through treatment and relapsed, perhaps many times.
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Miracle Max
Clinicians… feel as if they’re always missing at least one extremely important tool that would make all the difference.
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Doctors and Addiction
If by chance the patient didn’t fit the physician’s preconception of an addict– he or she was a respected member of the community, for example– then the doctor often fell into the enabler role.
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Insomnia: The Medication Dilemma
Insomnia is at the top of the list of common problems for both active addicts and the newly recovering, and sleeping meds can pose risks.
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Helping a Chronic Relapser
There’s hope. Partly because the effects of repeated treatments tend to be cumulative — most patients are learning something important from each.
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Slips and How to Avoid Them
Treatment generally includes identifying high risk situations and making a plan for dealing with them. Benny knew his sales meetings were high-risk; he just wasn’t willing to give them up without a trial. Three slips later, he acknowledged reality.
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Early Recovery: Twelve Pitfalls
If you notice any of these signs, it’s a good idea to make an appointment right away, talk to your group leader before/after a group session, or bring them up in your support or step group.
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Eight Ways to Drive Yourself Nuts
They’re common to many forms of mental illness, and they can afflict most of us at one time or another during our lives, even if we don’t suffer from any disease at all.
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Video: Can I Help an Alcoholic Change?
Scott McMillin, Recovery Systems Institute Principal, discusses the barriers that keep an addict or alcoholic from seeking help. Learning new ways to communicate can allow a caring family member, friend, or professional to motivate them to get the help they need.
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How Alcoholic People Change: A Different Paradigm
Instead of ‘how do we get someone else to change?’ we ask: ‘why hasn’t he or she changed already?”
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Relapse: What Threatens My Sobriety
Relapse doesn’t mean failure, but it does mean a great deal of pain and effort.
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Is there an “alcoholic/addictive” personality?
Suffering victim and destructive asshole, all wound up in the same person. That’s the “alcoholic/addictive” personality. But who is the “real person” underneath the disease?
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