Groups That Work: Values
Effective working groups can continue their traditions through surprising changes in location, membership, etc.
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Pharmaceutical “Cures”
From a patient’s viewpoint, physicians can be somewhat blase’ about risks associated with a medication.
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In the News: Kaos Around Kratom
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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Methadone Maintenance and Crime
So even if drug use decreases, and clients continue on methadone, they don’t necessarily make the other much-desired (by society) changes — such as giving up crime.
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Medication Assisted Treatment
In terms of a comfortable detox, Suboxone was a success. In terms of a return to opiate use, it was a failure.
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The Last Dose
Reliable stats on relapse can be hard to come by, but return-to-heroin rates appear to run above 80% (and in some cases, higher).
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Reducing Harm vs… Well, Reducing Harm
My longstanding rule is to design your program to treat your population, not some idealized group of subjects who did well in a research setting with a significantly different structure.
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The Monitoring Model
We spend a great deal of time in treatment seeking to increase patient motivation, but these programs do not rely on a motivated patient.
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Opioids and the Assumption of Failure
It also suggests that the ‘return to heroin’ rate among former maintenance clients may be even higher.
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The EBP Conundrum
When a clinician uses an EBP, she’s reassuring herself that it’s likely to be more helpful than if she sat on her hands and did nothing.
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Groups That Work: Climate
When a group has been mired in the hostile or helpless mode, and breaks through into work, you’ll see an almost tangible change in tone.
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Groups That Don’t Work pt 2
We’ve never seen a group that works, right from its inception. Progress toward work usually involves struggle through one or more of these modes.
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Groups That Don’t Work pt 1
When a group adopts one of these operating modes permanently, as a primary form of interaction, they end up actively resisting any responsibility for achieving individual and group goals.
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