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...
Read MoreRead MoreI 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 Hero...
Read MoreRead MoreIn 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...
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