Reflections on Medicine & Life
A couple of months ago, the kids and I were driving up to northern Wisconsin for a week-long break from COVID-19 cabin fever. We had an invitation to stay at our friends’ lakeside cottage. We became friends with them in
“San Diego has to be the worst place to attend a medical conference,” I thought several years ago as I walked into another big, brightly-lit but gray, windowless room in another big, gray convention center. Outside it was bright and
The most common concern expressed about medication-assisted treatment (MAT) with either Suboxone® (aka buprenorphine) or methadone is, “Aren’t we just replacing one addiction with another?” Patients, families, other clinicians, and various stakeholders interested in reversing the opioid epidemic, all have
I spend much of my time at work figuring out how to improve access to evidence-based treatment for individuals with addiction, especially opioid addiction. I attend conferences focused on opioid addiction. Over the past several years, it has become a common
Often elements of their social support system that help a person with addiction maintain the illusion that the ice they are skating on is thicker than it actually is.
Functional Addict: A self-descriptive term often used by a person with addiction who has somehow managed to keep his job while the rest of his world lies in ruins.