Smoking, recovery and mortality

~ Jason Schwartz

smoke by kan!!!DJ Mac recently posted about smoking, recovery and mortality:

There’s not a lot of acknowledgement of the cruelest of ironies: that people in recovery from alcohol and other drug dependence will still die of addiction-related disease. The fact is that about one in two of them will develop fatal pathology like cancer or heart disease because of smoking. Others will be impaired by chronic, smoking-related conditions.

It just so happens that we the Dawn Farm Education Series just presented on Tobacco Cessation and Addiction Recovery. Here’s their stuff.

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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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