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26 Oct 2017
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Things I don’t like about contemporary treatment: A meditation from the inside

Yeshaia Blakeney
The Field of Treatment

Dr. Erich Fromm, one of my teachers, inspires the title, and much of the content here. There is a huge shift transpiring in the field of drug and alcohol treatment, it is happening rapidly and systemically, it will be for the worst and difficult to reverse. Warning: the field of treatment is being infiltrated by people who are emotionally disconnected and un-empathetic towards the plight of the people they claim to serve. What the treatment industry used...

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15 Nov 2016
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The Human Side of Treatment Behind the Opioid Epidemic: Ryan’s Story

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog, The Field of Treatment

I was working in residential treatment a few years back; one Friday night, a new resident, Ryan, approached me. He was a teenager, 5’6” with big, kind eyes, natural dark circles, and a face that turned red at every feeling or change in temperature. He asked, vulnerably, if he could speak with me. I took him to my office, we sat down and I asked, “What’s up?” “I got out of Heroin detox two days ago....

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24 Aug 2016
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Is Addiction a Developmental Disorder? | Beyond the “Unbroken Brain”

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Recovery Blog

In Maia Szlavavitz’s new book “The Unbroken Brain” Maia articulately lays out a subtle and nuanced idea: Addiction is a developmental disorder.   It is a beautiful (although not new) idea that bridges the gap between the brain disease model of addiction and the idea that addicts are selfish amoral people “model” of addiction. The idea that addiction is developmental in nature accounts for the vast majority of what we see in the addicted populations. Addiction as a developmental disorder posits that there...

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