Epidemic in a Pandemic
Think about it: If a return to drug use is the only sure way to re-experience pleasurable feelings, relapse is going to seem a lot more attractive.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 25, 2021 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
Think about it: If a return to drug use is the only sure way to re-experience pleasurable feelings, relapse is going to seem a lot more attractive.
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 5, 2020 | People in Recovery, Recovery | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 9, 2020 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 25, 2020 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 11, 2020 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 30, 2020 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 16, 2020 | Recovery | 0 |
The question is, when you have all those years of apparently successful recovery, why throw it aside? How could that improve your situation?
Read Moreby 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?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 14, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
We’ve come a long way in treating addictions, but we’re still not very successful at convincing a patient to stick to a treatment regimen.
Read Moreby Parker Horveath | Jun 22, 2017 | Families, People in Recovery | 0 |
I felt detached from life and the people around me. I felt like a failure, but I had no other choice but to get back on my feet and try again.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 18, 2017 | Addiction, Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
It may seem to the individual as if it happens by itself– the result of an autopilot, set to return home.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 11, 2017 | Addiction Clinicians, Treatment | 0 |
But given the experience in other fields of healthcare, a return to the old lifestyle, however destructive, may be little more than human nature.
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 | 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
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