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Is Relapse a Crime?

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 28, 2018 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |

But if a community treats a correctional institution as a kind of locked flophouse, what else we can expect?

Tossing the Playbook

by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 14, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Relapse is Not Failure

by Parker Horveath | Jun 22, 2017 | Families, People in Recovery | 0 |
Is it Recovery Yet?

by C. Scott McMillin | May 18, 2017 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
The Medicine They Don’t Take…

by C. Scott McMillin | May 11, 2017 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
In Again, Out Again

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 31, 2016 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 1 |

War Within

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 20, 2016 | Addiction, Families, People in Recovery | 0 |

That’s the mystery: Not why some people become addicted to certain substances, but why others do not.

Three Challenges

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 15, 2016 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |

Like a stroke patient who suddenly finds himself needing to relearn basic skills that were once automatic, it may require a level of personal commitment unseen for many years.

Miracle Max

by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 14, 2016 | Addiction, Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |

Clinicians… feel as if they’re always missing at least one extremely important tool that would make all the difference.

Fault and Blame

by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 7, 2016 | Families, Treatment | 0 |

Rehab isn’t intended to effect a cure for someone’s addiction. We don’t have a cure for anybody’s addiction.

Recovery Maintenance Tip: Avoid Casinos

by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 7, 2016 | People in Recovery | 0 |

Many arrive in addiction treatment with clear symptoms of pathological gambling that often go unrecognized.

Changing the Tipping Point

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 23, 2015 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |

Try thinking of recovery as a learning process based in experience rather than the acquisition of information.

Working the Program

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 3, 2015 | Recovery | 2 |

Maybe for some individuals, whose goal is simply to get off drugs and meet like-minded people, a 12 Step fellowship fits the bill better than, say, the local church or civic group.