The Beginning of the End of Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment?

In my specialty as an addiction psychiatrist, I have often advocated for residential treatment when unremitting drug and alcohol problems persist because other, less intensive, services have failed. That may soon change. Over the past two years, I've witnessed a worrisome trend: the medicalization of addictions. Some of this makes no sense to me. Let me explain. There have always been drug treatments for acute detoxification of drug and alcohol problems. The drugs have changed over the years,...Full Story