Tag: recovery
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Changing Addiction Language for Better Understanding
I write a lot here about language and how words – especially those used in the field of addiction – don’t actually define what we mean to say. Words like “substance use disorder,” “mental health,” and others. Imagine how much farther ahead we’d be if we say that someone has “addiction” rather than a “substance…
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Understanding Addiction: Insights from Ask Eric
I am a huge fan of “Ask Eric,” which my daily newspaper runs every day. For the uninitiated, “Ask Eric” is the latest generation of “Dear Abby” or “Ask Ann Landers.” Ann Landers was really Esther “Eppie” Lederer, and Dear Abby was her twin sister Pauline “Popo” Phillips. I don’t like taking advice from anyone…
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How to Influence Change: Key Insights from _Influencer_
My navel gazing generally consists of my asking myself and others, “Is it me?” Usually it isn’t, at least in my own mind, which is why I was excited to read Influencer by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillanm, and Al Switzler. It’s an old book, as far as books go…published in 2007,…
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Addiction: The Disease Not Worthy of Intervention?
It is unconscionable for those with cancer, and it should be considered equally unconscionable for those with the other chronic, progressive, lethal disease.
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What Is Recovery?
Can a person be in remission or recovery while ceasing “heavy” drinking or use only?
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Getting Us Out of This Mess
Because of what I listened to from the first 2024 Republican Presidential primary debate, I Googled “How is fentanyl coming to the US?” And here’s what I found from the January 2020 DEA Intelligence Report: “The flow of fentanyl into the United States in 2019 is more diverse compared to the start of the fentanyl crisis…
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