…got up in front of over a thousand people in Atlanta tonight and utilizing evidence-based material, I denounced the massive over-prescription of Suboxone in America. No one else has ever done it for fear of retribution. I feared it but I did it anyway. I know I did the right thing. I hope I can […]
Speaking to the Members of the House of Representatives about the effectiveness of treatment instead of incarceration.
Finding a Rehab For Your Loved One If I were the parent of a teenager who had a drug problem today, I wouldn’t know what to do. There’s such a glut of information—probably 100 times the information that was out there in 2000, when I went to rehab—and all of it seems to contradict itself. […]
Presenting a keynote address in Atlanta next week at the 3rd Annual Prescription Drug Abuse Summit hosted by Senator Hal Rodgers, Head of the Senate Appropriations Committee. -Earl
Just watched a film called “Anonymous People”. Dr. William White said that if a person is anonymous and in AA, that they are ashamed. Not sure, but I think the traditions of AA mention something about anonymity being a spiritual foundation, the avoidance of ego taking center stage. More on this later. Earl
I’ll be speaking at the Prescription Drug Abuse Summit in Atlanta later this month. Getting nervous already! More people die from prescription drug overdose than die in car accidents in America today. Not illegal drugs, legal ones. Something has really gone wrong. Maybe when talking about prescription drug overdose we should focus on the first […]
Met with CEO of Elements Behavioral Health for 3 hours this week. Abstinence based treatment is alive and well in Los Angeles. Thanks for holding the line Dr. David Sack! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sack-md/ #Abstinencebasedtreatment
I look forward to this being a much livelier experience for all of us as I detail my path along some very specific lines, and of course, the required unfocused, not thought through meanderings that can often lead to the answers we all seek. Having worked in the field of behavioral health for 32 years […]
Convincing an individual struggling with substance abuse to quit can be a difficult challenge. Just like any other struggle with addiction, psychological factors make it very hard to quit, so a person must be convinced on their own terms that the time is right. A group of researchers wanted to find out exactly what motivates […]
It seems as if lately we hear more about prescription drug abuse. While there’s a perceived rise in prescription drug addiction, it’s always out there. The issues unique in my opinion in prescription drug addiction is that the dealer is often the physician – where I’m going to connect, where I’m going to get my […]