Addiction and Dental Problems
After years of continuous recovery from heroin addiction, Daryll had dental surgery and received prescription opioids for postsurgery pain. His addiction was…
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Comprehensiveness and Continuity of Care
I believe that the development and three subsequent revisions of The ASAM Criteria (Mee-Lee et al., 2013), along with motivational interviewing (MI)…
Breaking Free from Overwhelment
Overwhelment occurs when we experience severe overload to the point where we feel mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually depleted. While the adage…
Closing the Revolving Door: An Intervention to Address Relapse and Readmission
In the past five years, there has been a greater focus on patients who are readmitted to the hospital within thirty days.…
Ask the LifeQuake Doctor – Jun 2018
Dear Dr. Galardi,I’m a therapist at a residential treatment facility. What I’m writing you about is very difficult for me to talk…