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Drug problems and domestic violence screening
This study found that patients with diagnoses related to alcohol and other drug problems were MUCH less likely to be screened for interpersonal violence. Why is that? Filed under: Jason Schwartz...
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Primary care is good for recovery
Image via Wikipedia Primary care visits are associated with better recovery outcomes: A yearly primary care visit was also positively associated with remission (OR, 1.39), as was continuing care (OR,...
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Love First!
Our friends at Love First recently launched a major overhaul of their website. I has articles and a large collection of free videos for families who are concerned about loved ones. It’s our top site...
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Treating depression and substance use: no significant difference from control
Image via Wikipedia Another study finds treatment as usual to be just as effective as specialized CBT: Few integrated substance use and depression treatments have been developed for delivery in...
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Memory ‘trick’ relieves drug cravings
We’ve previously posted about the use of medications like propranolol to interfere with memory reconsolidation and reduce the power of addicts’ neurological triggers to get high. Chinese researchers...
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Human rights and coerced treatment
Superior Court Judge Jason Deal, right, congratulates one of three graduates, who successfully completed Dawson County’s Drug Court. A recent article looks at the ethics and effectiveness of coerced...
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The ancients on will and addiction
Socrates 469 BC – 2011 AD (Photo credit: nerosunero) It took me a few reads, but Alan Brody suggests that addiction is a combination of impaired will and impaired evaluative faculties that lead to poor...
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Sentences to ponder
American Society of Addiction Medicine (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the ASAM blog: …is there any evidence that the general public requires less treatment than do healthcare professionals and pilots?...
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24 month outcomes
surprise result road by dougtone Another study supports the effects of twelve step participation over 24 months. (I know the abstract says “self help”, but the pay-walled article makes it clear that...
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Sentences to ponder
“I had a doctor who I greatly respect who said, ‘We thought the great problem with these drugs [opioids] is addiction. What we didn’t realize [was] that the people who take them would opt out of life.’...
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Methadone, technology and outcomes
Substance Matters has a post about the use of new technologies in methadone maintenance. Patients who use a web-based intervention (TES) instead of half of their traditional counseling did better than...
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AA is asinine?
The Boston Globe has a piece on why Russians haven’t embraced AA: …the group-therapy dynamic collides with a skepticism about the possibility of ordinary people curing each other of anything. “The idea...
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NYT Reax
This blog has a point of view. We’re not fans of maintenance. (Though we still think Suboxone can be a very useful detox tool.) If you want to read defenses of Suboxone, you can find a couple here: The...
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Tribes of the recovering community
This week’s tribe is the Calix Society. Calix is an association of Catholic alcoholics who are maintaining their sobriety through affiliation with and participation in the Fellowship of Alcoholics...
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