An Unwelcome Consequence
Every so often I'd run into family members who'd let the situation go in the belief that treatment was futile until the drinker themselves decided they 'wanted' to quit.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 28, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
Every so often I'd run into family members who'd let the situation go in the belief that treatment was futile until the drinker themselves decided they 'wanted' to quit.
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 10, 2020 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 27, 2020 | In the News, Public Health | 2 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 13, 2020 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 10, 2020 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 30, 2020 | Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 13, 2020 | Public Health | 0 |
…the preoccupation with overdose death rates inadvertently distracted the public from a much larger and more enduring medical and social problem: an expanding population of persons with chronic Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
It’s crime of the sort you expect to find in a Quentin Tarantino movie but I’ve come to associate over the years with cocaine, crack, meth, and other stimulants.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 24, 2020 | In the News | 0 |
Of course, people who work in treatment know that there’s already solid base of regular users, millions of them, including daily smokers.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 20, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
I hate to see drunk driving convictions overturned for procedural errors, because I suspect that eventually, those fatality stats will reverse course and begin to climb again.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 13, 2020 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
“It’s still about pre-natal care,” I recall one (nurse) explaining.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 23, 2019 | Treatment | 0 |
For many people, however, including helping professionals, it’s tempting to just give up
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2019 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
As soon as they were feeling better, the guys would gather in the lounge to swap stories of high-level burglaries and shoplifting expeditions on a grand scale.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 11, 2019 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
It can be flagrant or subtle, but damage it will be. Sadly, the drinker is usually the last one to become aware of it. In fact, many never do.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 20, 2019 | Public Policy, Treatment | 0 |
I compare it to finding someone lying on the sidewalk, helping them up, brushing them off, and pushing them down again.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 16, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
There’s not a lot of disagreement about the potential for cannabis intoxication to impair driving performance, though without an accepted standard and a reliable roadside test, it’s not of much value in a courtroom.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 13, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Clearly, these folks don’t experience shame in the way society expects. It’s why they arrive in treatment angry and defensive.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 25, 2019 | Public Policy, Treatment | 0 |
Those of us who work in treatment quickly sense a problem: people with addictions aren’t likely to respond to this approach.
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