A Success, but with Complications
But if he feels he needs the medication to function normally, I see no reason for the rest of us to object. I mean, we don't want to disincentivize someone's recovery, do we?
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by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 14, 2024 | Recovery | 0 |
But if he feels he needs the medication to function normally, I see no reason for the rest of us to object. I mean, we don't want to disincentivize someone's recovery, do we?
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 27, 2023 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 13, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 28, 2022 | Addiction | 1 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 14, 2022 | Treatment | 0 |
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by C. Scott McMillin | May 7, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
I’d feel better if I knew some in our brilliant science community were working hard on ways to taper patients, if just the most highly motivated, off the medications with a reduced risk of return to heroin.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 22, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
We may be stuck relying on the soft stuff– therapy, support, behavior change, even spiritual growth– all those icky-squicky things that neuroscientists struggle to quantify.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 30, 2017 | Addiction Clinicians, Addictive Substances, People in Recovery | 0 |
If addiction really is a brain disorder based in complex adaptations to a substance, then who’s to say those adaptations won’t occur with a different drug?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 27, 2017 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Not surprisingly, the vast majority of patients who drop out or otherwise leave maintenance programs return to heroin at rates of 80% or higher.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 26, 2017 | Programs, Treatment | 3 |
It’s the basic unit of most drug-free approaches. What would happen if it could be incorporated into the OTP curriculum?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 25, 2017 | In the News | 0 |
That’s why I’d welcome more research into the tapering process, with an eye to improving success rates.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 21, 2017 | Programs, Treatment | 0 |
Of course with additional treatment responsibilities, a counselor couldn’t be expected to manage a caseload of up to 75.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 6, 2017 | Public Policy, Treatment | 0 |
The benefits of the program are framed mostly in terms of harm reduction– what doesn’t happen.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 16, 2017 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
An answer such as vigorous exercise or meditation or going to a meeting will never be as universally attractive to someone a few weeks sober as “well, here, why don’t you toke this?”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 22, 2016 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Would you respond to this information with a concerted effort at self-examination and profound behavior change?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2016 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 1 |
I’ve come to view it more as a tool for harm reduction than a path to long term recovery, with some notable exceptions.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 19, 2016 | Addiction, In the News, Treatment | 1 |
It may be that kratom is a drug that some can use without much difficulty, while for others, it becomes pathological.
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