Evidence-based writing on addiction, treatment and recovery for families and individuals, drawn from the peer-reviewed literature and 18 years of practice.
The career risk is usually the reason a family delays. In practice it is one of the more manageable parts, and the delay itself is what actually threatens the job.
The features families compare — location, amenities, philosophy — are mostly not the features associated with better results. Here is what the evidence points at instead.
Longer than thirty days, and longer than almost anyone is told. What the long-term follow-up research found about how recovery actually unfolds over years.
Not an ambush, not a confrontation, and not what television showed you. A step-by-step account of how a planned intervention is actually run.
Most families wait longer than they should, for reasons that make sense at the time. Here is how to tell the difference between a hard patch and a pattern.
