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Using the Chronic Disease Model in Treating Addiction

Sometimes events happen that require a new way of thinking. This year, I have experienced losses, like those that propel me to move to the addiction arena: clients dying after a year of sobriety despite having completed treatment.

I started working on a new concept, download my opinion article.


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MG Drake, Writer, Social Worker

More than a quarter century of working with people as a clinical social worker has taken me across the country.  I am fortunate enough to have worked with people with mental disabilities, chronic mental illness and addiction.  It is in both my work and the people I meet in my work, that I found how much more common it feels to be lost and alone,  specially when one is always surrounded by people.

Every Other Weekend
 

To be an empty nester at an early age, creates a void.  But it is not always about being alone, sometimes it is about re-discovering yourself.

Multi-Family Group
for Substance Use Treatment
My newest book coming soon. The Multi-Family Group for Substance Use Treatment is workbook for a two-day intensive or a 16-week group curriculum for the patient, spouses, parents, siblings, and partners. The two-day intensive program is the preferred delivery method.
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