Substance abuse

I go public in every Psychopharmacology seminar that I teach by stating that I don’t treat substance abuse in any manifestation. It’s noble work, and for those of you doing it, my hat is off to you. It’s not for me though. That famous line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet – “to thine own self be true” – defines why I wouldn’t be good at it. Substance abuse is fraught with manipulation, deception, denial and minimizing. Extracting the truth from a substance [...]