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Alcohol Addiction, Day Drinking & Returning to the Office After COVID

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Jul 21

July 1, 2021

Alcohol Addiction, Day Drinking & Returning to the Office After COVID

Gabby completed a screening form to come to the Coleman Institute for Addiction Medicine looking for a safe way to stop drinking alcohol. Reviewing it before I called her back, I noted that Gabby was 35, a data analyst, married for ten years and had two children. Neither of her parents had any history of any sort of Substance Use Disorder (SUD), and Gabby noted that she had never attended any form of treatment in the past for her alcohol use.

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6 Things to Know If Your Child is Using Drugs

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Jun 21

June 18, 2021

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 around outside your body.”

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Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT): Higher Success for Recovery

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Jun 21

June 6, 2021

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.

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Recovery & Returning to the Workplace Post-COVID

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Apr 21

April 20, 2021

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 of employment (our family away from home).

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Fentanyl in Cocaine: The Deadly Pairing

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Apr 21

April 18, 2021

Fentanyl in Cocaine: The Deadly Pairing

I heard a disturbing report on National Public Radio (NPR) this morning. The report was called: Fentanyl-Laced Cocaine Becoming A Deadly Problem Among Drug Users.

More and more people are dying from fentanyl being placed in cocaine.

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