Posts Tagged ‘treatment for drug addiction’
The Shame of Addiction
I saw it again last night as I faced an audience of people in treatment for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), aka addiction, and their family members, all of whom were present to hear my lecture. I saw the crushing emotional pain that surrounds this family disease on their faces, in their body language, in the way…
Read MoreAddiction Treatment – What to Look For
Making sense of addiction treatment (whether its for drugs or alcohol or both or for a co-occurring disorder), which is having both an addiction and a mental illness, is daunting to say the least. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a terrific resource to help people determine what they should look for…
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