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Rethinking 12-Step Referrals

June 13, 2026

Daniel Carlat, MD

How to make a 12-step referral patients will actually try.

Expert Q&A

Breaking the Stigma: Helping Physicians Seek and Sustain Recovery

July 1, 2025

Peter Grinspoon, MD

Dr. Peter Grinspoon is a primary care physician and cannabis specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Author of Free Refills: A Doctor Confronts His Addiction (Hachette Books, 2016) and Seeing Through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth About Marijuana (Prometheus, 2023).

Dr. Grinspoon has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Dr. Peter Grinspoon reflects on his own recovery from opioid addiction and the barriers that keep doctors from seeking help. He shares personal insights and evidence-based strategies for supporting physician recovery and makes the case for a more compassionate, flexible model of care and monitoring.

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The WRAP Approach to Recovery: The Essentials

July 7, 2023

Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD

Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD. Developer of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). Author of several books, including The Depression Workbook, Living Without Depression and Manic Depression, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain, Winning Against Relapse, and The Worry Control Workbook.

Dr. Copeland has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

This brief companion piece accompanies Dr. Copeland's Q&A, "Using Self-Help Skills for Recovery: The WRAP Approach."

EXPERT Q&A

Using Self-Help Skills for Recovery: The WRAP Approach

June 28, 2023

Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD

Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD. Developer of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). Author of several books, including The Depression Workbook, Living Without Depression and Manic Depression, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Myofascial Pain, Winning Against Relapse, and The Worry Control Workbook.

Dr. Copeland has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Learn how simple, safe, and noninvasive strategies can make a profound difference in managing mental health crises.

Helping Patients Maintain Recovery

July 2, 2019

Excerpted from a past issue of The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report, Matthew Goldenberg, DO, Founder of Professionals Health Solutions and assistant professor of psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, offers the following advice:Enhance your patients’ courage. Many people with SUDs may not think of themselves as brave, but it takes guts...