Disclaimer:  nothing in this post should be taken or held as clinical instruction, clinical supervision, or advisory concerning patient care.  A colleague in the field submitted a specific problem related to treatment plans for me to comment on here at Recovery Review. “What's the specific issue?”, I asked.  They replied, “When treatment plans are individualized … Continue reading Topic from the field:  A problem with treatment plans

Each of us have qualities that seem relatively stable over our lifespan, while other aspects seem to come and go.  Some of our more stable qualities are personality factors.  Examples of personality factors include how outgoing we are, a tendency to see the glass as “half-empty”, and our propensity for risk-taking behaviors.  There are many … Continue reading Comments on the Practical Use of Personality

The majority of the population prefer the certainty of irrational conviction to the uncertainty of logical doubt. (Anonymous). Payte, J. T. (1997). Methadone Maintenance Treatment: The First Thirty Years. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 29(2): 149-153. DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1997.10400182

An article published online 11/20/2023 caught my attention.  The paper is titled “Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of cannabis use disorder yields insight into disease biology and public health implications”.  You can find the full text here. The article's a rather technical read, given it describes research methods within population-level genetics.  By contrast, a highly readable … Continue reading Research Article Review:  A paper examining the genome of 1,054,365 people from four ancestral groups vs. cannabis

What do you gain for our field as you consider this quote about Miles Davis as a bandleader? Here it is. See what you think....  The main ingredient there, if there was any special ingredient, was Miles, and the way he led the way…Basically there was an agreement amongst those musicians, not spoken but something … Continue reading Lessons from Outside the Field:  Chick Corea on Miles Davis as a Bandleader 

Some of my favorite resources on Narcotics Anonymous are those that come from the work Boyd and Chris have done on NA history. Here's a podcast they did on that content. That link is to their podcast episode on Spotify dated 09/10/2023. I wanted to share the podcast link here on Recovery Review to help … Continue reading Boyd P & Chris B – History of NA. The Living Clean Podcast.