Addiction Treatment Methods

The Marchman and Baker acts need updating if Florida is going to meet the challenges of a raging opioid epidemic and deadly mass shootings.

In mid-June of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared “gaming disorder” a clinically recognizable and significant syndrome.

This concludes my list of common observations among hundreds of long-term weight maintainers and individuals who have resolved serious drinking problems.

I decided it would be really interesting to step back and identify what both groups of people – the “masters of change” – had in common.

Early in my career as a counselor of overweight clients, I wish I’d received a dollar each time a patient said to me, “I know what I need to do; I just can’t get myself to do it.”

Multiple recent reports highlight the fact that the main culprit in today’s opioid crisis is fentanyl and its analogs, much more so than prescription opioids prescribed by healthcare professionals.

As society begins to acknowledge that harassment, abuse and rape are real and serious issues, it is gratifying to see AA finally confronting the truth.

As I read the Steps again, I began to look at the them from a harm reductionist perspective. I found myself rephrasing them from the perspective as someone who does not believe I am powerless.

Raising the possibility of limits on the number of times a person may receive naloxone is a backdoor way to ask whether someone deserves to live.

Changes are on the horizon for both the Florida Marchman Act and the Baker Act, which allow for involuntary commitment of people with substance abuse or mental health problems.