AA and the Atheist
Of course, now there are quite a few alternatives, secular in orientation. AA continues to have advantages for many recovering people -- for one thing, it's very available in most communities, and for another, it's free.
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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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Recent Events Roundup
Counseling involves staying alert to behavioral cues that can illuminate or even contradict what is said.
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DUI: Running Them Down?
I know the public gets upset when they read that DWI arrests are again climbing, but that’s often a good sign.
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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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Treatment and Coercion
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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Why Zero Tolerance Fails
…as one judge told me at a conference: “no matter how many jails you build, judges will fill them. It’s the easiest way to make this someone else’s problem, instead of ours.”
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Prison as a Strategy
The theory is that the more users we put in jail or prison, the fewer left out on the street. So why hasn’t that substantially reduced arrest and overdose statistics?
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Florida’s Compulsory Treatment Law
Many of those programs treat opioid users without relying on medication, and yet manage to achieve remarkable success rates– sometimes 80% over a five year period.
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Revolving Cell Doors
In many communities, the push to get the drinker or user “off the street” has turned the jail into an unwilling detox facility.
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Crime vs. Disease
…healthcare advocates have to work extra hard while proponents of a more punitive approach simply point to a crime committed by a drug user…
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