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Insights and Perspectives
Analysis, lived experience, and ethical perspective on addiction, mental health,
and recovery, grounded in real-world practice and systems-level thinking.


The Car Wash Model of Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Needs an Overhaul. How to Prevent Relapse After Addiction Treatment? You Can't!
Our first goal is understanding—not compliance. Using the 12 Dimensions of Human Health and Wellness, we look at the whole person: trauma, relationships, finances, career, legal issues, family, housing, physical health, mental health, spirituality, and purpose. Then we help individuals decide what they want to work on first.

Alex Shohet
Dec 24, 20252 min read


Part II: The Silent Third Party — AI and Addiction
Addiction is never just about one person. It unfolds across families, clinicians, and systems making impossible decisions with no guaranteed outcomes. As AI enters these moments—quietly, persistently—it becomes a silent third party at the table, shaping conversations, boundaries, and risk in ways we are only beginning to understand.

Alex Shohet
Dec 22, 20254 min read


A Mother said to me, "even if she is going to die from her addiction let her die with dignity." This blog suggests some ways to help an adult child with addiction.
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For fifteen years, this mother followed the advice she was given by professionals who promised certainty in an uncertain disease: cut her daughter off, stop rescuing, and wait for the moment she would finally “hit bottom.” What followed was not insight or recovery, but homelessness, violence, and deepening trauma. Then her mother said something that quietly changed everything: “If my daughter is going to die from this disease, I want her to die with dignity.” This po

Alex Shohet
Dec 21, 20253 min read
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