Addiction Medicine

“Am I Drinking too Much?” 5 Ways to Know When You’ve Crossed the Line

2020-10-25T02:01:49+00:00

  Alcohol is fun - until it isn’t. At Shanti Recovery and Wellness, we meet people in our Portland, OR office who want to stop or reduce their drinking everyday. We treat alcoholism - a form of substance use disorder - with nutrition, talk therapy and medication using the highest level of evidence-based care available [...]

“Am I Drinking too Much?” 5 Ways to Know When You’ve Crossed the Line2020-10-25T02:01:49+00:00

Why Do Emergencies like COVID 19 Create a Greater Need for Addiction Treatment Services?

2020-08-04T15:30:06+00:00

     It’s fair to say we’ve all been struggling to some extent with the negative impacts COVID-19 has made in our lives. Anecdotally, it would seem that social distancing, disrupted routines, cancelled life milestones, and ongoing financial uncertainty is taking a big toll on each of us. It’s too early to know the exact impacts [...]

Why Do Emergencies like COVID 19 Create a Greater Need for Addiction Treatment Services?2020-08-04T15:30:06+00:00

Evidence Based Addiction Treatment: What Do the Statistics Say? 

2019-11-14T17:33:25+00:00

  For too long, addiction treatment wasn’t treated as a science and failed to meet basic evidence-based criteria for patient care. There simply weren’t many studies being done on the science of getting sober. Now that Addiction Medicine is a moderately funded branch of science, and a formally approved medical specialty, we know quite a [...]

Evidence Based Addiction Treatment: What Do the Statistics Say? 2019-11-14T17:33:25+00:00
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