by Patrick Doyle | Apr 19, 2019 |
Today we have a guest blogger; Amanda S., also known as @RebelEclectic on Twitter where her advocacy has a following. Amanda has been open with her own story of addiction recovery. This will be more a story about her loving parents’ experience of addiction in their...
by Patrick Doyle | Jan 13, 2019 |
[photo courtesy Amazon Studios] ‘Beautiful Boy’, now on Amazon Prime Video, is an accurate portrayal of what research has shown; that rather than being unidimensional, addiction usually develops from a myriad of influences and risk factors. There can be a strong...
by Patrick Doyle | Jan 6, 2019 |
Don’t you hate it when politicians and drug/health policy decision makers declare that an Opioid crisis is a national pubic health emergency that requires our full resources; yet the overdose death toll and damage continues with little if any change? 70,000 or so...
by Patrick Doyle | Oct 2, 2018 |
Had a terrific conversation with journalist Alison Knopf, whose case story in the latest Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly captures just how our Coaching using Harm Reduction can help Families find Recovery. This family had already tried the traditional approaches...
by Patrick Doyle | Sep 17, 2018 |
We at Family Opioid Coaching have gotten hundreds of calls from frustrated, scared parents asking what they can do when their adult children refuse to consider the idea of NOT using drugs. Sometimes they live with a person who uses drugs (PWUD); too fearful to ask...
by Patrick Doyle | Aug 16, 2018 |
Some items posted by credible sources on Twitter have a remarkable ability to cut to the truth; like this, from Jon Hislop, MD, PhD of Vancouver B.C. @HislopMD . I find myself cringing when I hear the terms “Rehab” or “Detox” used to describe...
