Evidence-based writing on addiction, treatment and recovery for families and individuals, drawn from the peer-reviewed literature and 18 years of practice.
The most argued-about question in recovery finally has a serious answer, and it surprised a lot of people who were confident either way.
Travel strips out every structure at once and adds the events where drinking is most expected. What to plan before the trip is booked.
You have no authority and you cannot make them. What the research says a parent can actually do — and it is considerably more than nothing.
Physicians treated for substance use disorders do markedly better than the general treatment population. The reason is not willpower or better facilities — it is structure, and it can be bought.
The instinct is to confront immediately. Almost everything that goes wrong in the following months is set up in these two days, so here is a better use of them.
Success rates in this industry are unregulated, unaudited and almost always meaningless. Here is how to take one apart in about five minutes.
The practical, unglamorous business of the first months at home — what the household should expect, and what quietly determines whether it holds.
Withdrawal from two substances can kill you, and from most others cannot. That distinction decides this question, and most families have it backwards.
We charge private rates, so read this sceptically. The features that justify a premium price are mostly not the features associated with better outcomes.
Privacy is the main reason families pay privately rather than claim on insurance. Here is where information actually leaks, and what can be decided in advance.
