by The Coleman Institute | Jul 8, 2019
Phillipa has been part of our practice for many years. She has as tough an Addiction Story as any I’ve heard. From getting a taste of hydrocodone as a teenager, she moved on to oxycodone, and finally to a fierce heroin habit which lasted for many years. She burned...
by The Coleman Institute | Jun 24, 2019
Choosing nursing or medicine as a profession usually means that sometime in your career, you’ll be working weekends and holidays. So when my children were young, I had to take my turns doing shifts on Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, or the 4th of July for many...
by The Coleman Institute | Jun 5, 2019
Is the Opioid Crisis responsible for helping to mobilize some of the greatest new approaches to help people change? Or have these great techniques been brewing under the surface, being applied to different problems and issues, highlighted now because of the vast...
by The Coleman Institute | May 29, 2019
As I tell my patients all the time: you didn’t use drugs because you were ignorant, you used drugs because they were helping you with something. Until they weren’t. As Russell Brand, the British comedian, author, and activist says, “A counselor at the treatment centre...
by The Coleman Institute | May 22, 2019
There is never a shortage of material to use for writing a blog article for the Coleman Institute. Inspiration swirls around me in the form of patients who are discovering the amazing freedom they have found in recovery, community support around recovery that...