Loving Someone to Death: Supporting Recovery Without Enabling
When we talk about recovery and the interpersonal dynamics that often occur in relationships, “enabling” is the dirty word no one wants to hear. But what is enabling? How do we know when we’re loving someone too much? And once we can recognize it, how do we stop it?...
6 Things to Know If Your Child is Using Drugs
When I was a young mother with friends and family members having babies, I would often send a hand-lettered card with a poignant message by Elizabeth Stone: “Making he decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking...
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT): Higher Success for Recovery
Recently, the New York Times ran an article proposing that most opiate addicts should receive Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT). I couldn’t agree with them more. Success rates for patients with opiate addiction who are not treated with any form of MAT are horrible....
Recovery & Returning to the Workplace Post-COVID
It has been quite a year. We did not see the COVID-19 pandemic coming and only now are we beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It has been an extremely painful and challenging year for everyone — a year of isolation from friends, family, and our places...
