Where Goals and Effectiveness Meet
Experience tells us that almost all of the wide variety of treatment strategies and models are around because they work well for someone.
View ArticleRelapse and Addiction Policy
Somebody who shows up six months later, sick, asking for another admission to the hospital, is in their eyes a failure.
View ArticleOpioids and the Assumption of Failure
It also suggests that the 'return to heroin' rate among former maintenance clients may be even higher.
View ArticleCycles
Those misconceptions are a principal reason so many Americans have become skeptical of the value of treating addictions at all.
View ArticleFault and Blame
Rehab isn't intended to effect a cure for someone's addiction. We don't have a cure for anybody's addiction.
View ArticleIn the News: The Human Element
A doc who's watching the clock is far less likely to expend valuable time chatting with a patient.
View ArticleMandated vs. Voluntary Treatment
I suspect that the methodology for measuring success was far too narrow. Focused entirely on crime, they missed a host of other gains from participation in treatment.
View ArticleCrime- the Lifestyle
That's why drug treatment may reduce crime, but doesn't always eliminate it.
View ArticleThe Medicine They Don’t Take…
But given the experience in other fields of healthcare, a return to the old lifestyle, however destructive, may be little more than human nature.
View ArticleAn Update on Business Ethics
How could any treatment program anywhere assure its customers that drugs and alcohol were behind them once for all? The post An Update on Business Ethics first appeared on Recovery SI.
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