Cruel or Fair?
But over the years, a pattern has emerged: an effort that begins as prevention or rehabilitation swings to the other side if the results don't meet expectations, or don't arrive quickly enough.
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Police Story, Part Two
How do you find room for new attitudes when the old ones are still omnipresent in the background?
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Police Story, Part One
Given that addiction by its nature puts many treatment clients into direct conflict with the law, I don’t see how we can afford to ignore these issues.
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Glamour Grotesque
It’s always been fun for the public to speculate on what drove someone to literally disappear inside the bottle.
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Another “Resurgence”
…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).
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Driver’s Ed
Of course, people who work in treatment know that there’s already solid base of regular users, millions of them, including daily smokers.
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A Case of Drunk Driving
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.
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Who’s Raising the Kids?
“It’s still about pre-natal care,” I recall one (nurse) explaining.
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Elder and Addicted
For many people, however, including helping professionals, it’s tempting to just give up
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Drugstore Cowboy
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.
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Secondhand Drinking
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.
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Coercion in Massachusetts
I compare it to finding someone lying on the sidewalk, helping them up, brushing them off, and pushing them down again.
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