Clinical Challenges

Overcoming Regrets: A Key to Clinician Resilience
Feelings of regret are inevitable in an addiction professional's work life, but there are strategies for minimizing their impact.
These Patients Require Patience
Brian Duffy identifies eight client types that pose difficult challenges for clinicians in their helping role.
Patients Resolve to Pursue Small Steps Toward Big Goals
A clinician at Mountainside suggests that conversations about patient goals should focus on the small actions that pave the way to greater progress.
Film Guides Creation of New Narrative for Struggling Patients
"Is Your Story Making You Sick?" seeks to counteract damaging narratives that keep patients with addictions and other serious issues stuck in negative patterns of thinking.
STIM Spotlight: Concurrent Use of Stimulants, Opioids Defies Past Explanations
A focus on one drug of abuse in research or policy-making makes little sense given the widespread phenomenon of polydrug use, says Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH.
In This Challenging Time, How Well Do You Test Out?
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic provides a rare opportunity to take stock of our souls or, in psychological terms, our character.
Rx Summit Spotlight: Relatable Messaging Reduces Stigma
Jodi Maiolo, MPH, CPH, and Shanen Wright will discuss a campaign to reduce stigma in Appalachia that they worked on and how some of their takeaways can be used to create more effective messaging in other communities.
Providers Prepare as Coronavirus Spreads
As the number of coronavirus cases climbs above 24,000, addiction treatment and behavioral healthcare providers gather information and review protocols for protecting vulnerable patients.
NCAD West: Digital Therapeutics Reduce Burden on Providers, Improve Efficiency
Stigma, lack of coverage and inadequate training for physicians are creating barriers to treatment for SUD, but digital therapeutics are emerging as an effective complement to boost traditional treatment, according to Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, and Mario San Bartolome, MD, MBA, MRO, FASAM.
SAM Leader Highlights Flaws in Studies on Marijuana Access and Opioid Deaths
Kevin Sabet states that recent findings linking expanded access to marijuana with reductions in opioid-related deaths have been thoroughly rebutted.
To Minimize Countertransference, Clinicians Must Maintain Control in Relationship
A breakout session at NCAD East offered strategies for minimizing the effects of countertransference, which is inevitable in therapeutic work.

Videos

WestBridge Shares Their Perspective When Treating Dual Diagnosis
In this short video, WestBridge employees define the meaning of Co-occurring Disorders as when an individual is experiencing both symptoms of mental health and substance use disorders together—also…
Best Practices in the Treatment of Co-Occurring Disorders
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