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In a 1772 letter to Joseph Priestley, Franklin described his own use of the method, [5] which is now often called the Ben Franklin method. [6] It involves making a list of pros and cons, estimating the importance of each one, eliminating items from the pros and cons lists of roughly equal importance (or groups of items that can cancel each ...
The letter reported on an examination of medical files of patients who had been hospitalized and treated with small doses of opioids.The authors concluded that of the 11,882 patients who received at least one narcotic drug, only four of them had developed a "reasonably well documented" addiction among patients who had no history of addiction.
Within a year of the letter's going out, there was found to be a 17% fall in the number of benzodiazepines being prescribed, with 5% of patients having totally discontinued benzodiazepines. [63] [64] A study in the Netherlands reported a higher success rate by sending a letter to patients who are benzodiazepine-dependent. The results of the ...
My father lived in the Washington City Mission in Washington, Pennsylvania, a Christian halfway house that required sobriety, church attendance and concrete responsibilities. | Op-ed
SMART Recovery is based on scientific knowledge and is intended to evolve as scientific knowledge evolves. [4] The program uses principles of motivational interviewing, found in motivational enhancement therapy (MET), [5] and techniques taken from rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), as well as scientifically validated research on treatment. [6]
"Whatever I write on that letter, I throw it in the water, and it's releasing that anger because you kind of get angry when you're writing it and thinking of everything that you're writing about ...
Many counties in the Northeast have moderate to high numbers of doctors certified to treat buprenorphine patients. But just 31 percent of the 7,745 doctors in those areas are certified to treat the legal limit of 100 patients.
The CAGE questionnaire, the name of which is an acronym of its four questions, is a widely used screening test for problem drinking and potential alcohol problems.The questionnaire takes less than one minute to administer, [1] and is often used in primary care or other general settings as a quick screening tool rather than as an in-depth interview for those who have alcoholism.