Non-medical treatments are essential

~ Jason Schwartz

 


Love First linked to this article on the role of non-medical interventions in treating addiction.

I’m more and more convinced that the key to managing costs and improving outcomes for all chronic diseases are behavioral or lifestyle strategies. We’ve got a lot to learn about helping people make important changes in their lives that will help prevent relapses in cardiac care, joint replacements, weight loss, respiratory care, depression, etc. We’ve got even more to learn about helping people maintain these changes for decades.

Addiction treatment is ahead of the curve on a lot of this. We have a lot to offer the rest of medicine and I’m certain we’ll have a lot of opportunities to learn from their research and innovations.

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Published by Jason Schwartz

I have been an addiction professional and social worker since 1994. I started blogging in 2005 as the Clinical Director at Dawn Farm. I no longer work at Dawn Farm and am now the Director of Behavioral Medicine at a community hospital, and a lecturer at Eastern Michigan University’s School of Social Work. Views expressed here are my own. Keep in mind that the field, the contexts in which the field operates, and my views have changed over time.

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  1. I can attest to this from personal experience; when I changed my eating, and overall lifestyle, most of my skin issues dissipated:)

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