by Rob Cline | Sep 30, 2024 | Addiction Recovery, Rehab
Many people are hesitant to seek out treatment for a substance use disorder because they are worried that all they will encounter is judgment from the people who are supposed to help them.It is an understandable concern. After all, substance use disorders are still...
by Rob Cline | Sep 25, 2024 | Addiction Recovery, Healthy Living, Recovery
Are you a jazz fan? To be honest, that is kind of a tricky question to answer. After all, jazz is a word that can be applied to quite a number of styles of music. There’s big band jazz. There’s bebop. There’s fusion. Spend some time listening to jazz on the radio and...
by Rob Cline | Sep 19, 2024 | Addiction Recovery
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that we like to dip into pop culture, history, the arts, and more to help us explain important ideas related to substance use disorders, treatment, and the recovery journey. In this entry, we are going to...
by Rob Cline | Sep 3, 2024 | Addiction Recovery
This is the third entry in our series dedicated to replacing bad ideas about substance use disorders and recovery with facts. You can read the first two entries here and here.When it comes to substance use disorders, misinformation is particularly dangerous. After...
by Rob Cline | Aug 23, 2024 | Addiction Recovery
In a recent blog entry, we considered some ideas about substance use disorders and recovery that some people stubbornly insist are true—even though they are not. As we pointed out in that entry, this is a common enough problem in all of our lives. Once a person comes...
by Rob Cline | Aug 20, 2024 | Addiction Recovery
You have probably had this experience: A person makes a statement that strikes you as unlikely to be true. But when you express doubt, they double down, insisting they are entirely right and that anyone who says otherwise is absolutely, hopelessly wrong. You might try...
