Center for Enhanced Recovery

More and more research on stigma is showing that words can truly be weapons that can hurt people and in ways that the users of those words may not anticipate. Recovery Research Institute

Interesting article on #OpioidAddiction #Treatments #PolicyChanges http://www.nationalmemo.com/26-real-policy-steps-address-o/

Great program... also helps explain why treating #Adolescent #SubstanceUseDisorders is different than treating an adult with an #SUD -- https://ww2.kqed.org//neuroscientist-explores-the-contrad/ See this link for information on treating adolescent SUDs https://www.drugabuse.gov//evidence-based-approaches-to-tr

#ACEs #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #TreatingAddiction "The solution to changing the illegal or unhealthy ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behavior of opioid addiction is to address a person’s adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) individually and in group therapy; treat people with respect; provide medication assistance in the form of buprenorphine, an opioid used to treat opioid addiction; and help them find a ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking behavior that won’t kill them or put them in jail."~quote from Dr. Daniel Sumrok, director of the Center for Addiction Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine in article linked below http://www.acesconnection.com//substance-abuse-doc-says-st