The Lighthouse

A podcast I often recommend to patients is The Bubble Hour (www.thebubblehour.com). On a recent episode the discussion was about relapse. Two women in long -term recovery discuss what it’s like for them when friends relapse. One of them quoted Anne Lamott, who...

Success Story: Airport Encounter

On Sunday morning Dr. Coleman and I were returning from a weekend in Boston. We were rolling our bags through the airport when a young man came up to us and excitedly said, “Um, excuse me. . . don’t mean to interrupt you. . . but, do you remember...

Naltrexone Therapy Might Be The Right Choice

I’ve been a nurse practitioner for about 16 years, almost nine of those at The Coleman Institute. When I interviewed with Dr. Coleman, I understood he needed a family nurse practitioner. It was a nice setting–close enough that I could walk or bike if I...

Escaping Pain With Opiates

What would you have to give up if you stopped blaming yourself? I heard this question asked during a podcast by Tara Brach, who teaches topics on meditation. She was making the point that so often the voice that appears and reappears in our head has the tone of...

Help for Chronic Pain Patients

A lot of the patients who come to us to be detoxed off opiates have never used street drugs. They are chronic pain patients who have become dependent on opiate pain medicine prescribed to them in a doctor’s office. These are patients who started on narcotic pain...