How low can we go?

October 16, 2013February 28, 2022 ~ Jason Schwartz

This is the sound of the bar being lowered.

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 currently serve as the Director of Social Work and Spiritual Care for a healthcare system. I've also served as the Director of Behavioral Health at another hospital. I'm also 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. View all posts by Jason Schwartz

3 thoughts on “How low can we go?”

Web Servant says:

October 16, 2013 at 5:27 pm

Funny isn’t it – any reduction in using while on OST is considered a success yet the advocates of OST so often look at abstinence and recovery based treatment and charge that any use even a single lapse in the space of 3 year follow up indicates treatment failure.

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1. Jason Schwartz says:
  
  October 18, 2013 at 6:50 am
  
  Yeah. The only way this study gets funded and published is if they have given up on recovery and the addicts are simply viewed as vectors of disease.
  
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2. Junkphilosophy says:
  
  October 22, 2013 at 11:29 pm
  
  Hilarious, yes. Harm reduction treatment–they have it so easy, don’t they? If we abstainers start indulging even once in three years, we’re no longer abstinent, by definition. Maybe we could change the meaning of the word “abstinence” to include periodic lapses…. Then we’d beat them.
  
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