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Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Ann Arbor, Michigan
Blog: http://www.dawnfarm.org/blog.html
Jason Schwartz, LMSW is the Clinical Director of Dawn Farm, in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor,... Full Bio
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Sizzurp by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Lil Wayne’s recent scare prompted The Atlantic to post a primer on sizzurp . Read on »
Sentences to ponder by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism In a book review of Drugs for Life, while discussing the Pharma driven model of health that pathologizes many normal experiences/processes” …even while risk and ill ... Read on »
Pharma gamesmanship in addiction by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism   Reckitt Benckiser (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Points offers a post summarizing the history of Suboxone up to the present. Including the role of NIDA in he ... Read on »
The “decline effect” hits naltrexone by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Ritalin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The “ decline effect ” hits naltrexone . Oral naltrexone is an FDA-approved medication for treating alcohol use disord ... Read on »
David Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism David Foster Wallace (Photo credit: Steve Rhodes) An interesting interview with DFW’s biographer about his recovery. Check it out . On the influence of 12 step ... Read on »
Songs of Addiction and Recovery by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Frank Turner’s latest Read on »
Songs of Addiction and Recovery by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Frank Turner’s latest Read on »
The benefits of harm reduction are not as obvious as they seem by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Warning: This Area Contains Tobacco Smoke (Photo credit: tbone_sandwich) Theodore Dalrymple points out the inconsistency in the British Medical Journal’s vigorous ... Read on »
Michigan’s medical marijuana business by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Crain’s Detroit has an article on the state’s medical marijuana business from the grow side to the physicians. The article says that there have been 344,000 patient appl ... Read on »
$2.2 billion invested in addiction treatment and behavioral health companies by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism   photo credit: ntoper Businessweek has a damning investigation of for-profit methadone treatment. And, who knew that Bain Capital is such a player? Sin ... Read on »
Sentences to ponder by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism “My best advice to clinicians, to the press, and to the general public—be skeptical and don’t follow DSM-5 blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over-diagnosis a ... Read on »
Methadonia by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism When Methadonia was first released, there was quite a bit of hand wringing over whether the film inaccurately presented methadone maintenance treatment in a negative light ... Read on »
Dead addicts don’t recover, but… by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Naloxone (Photo credit: intropin) This has gotten a lot of press. There’s naloxone distribution doubt this will reduce overdose deaths. However, some pretty impor ... Read on »
The spirituality of addiction treatment by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism English: A woman walking a prayer labyrinth (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was listening to On Being this morning and was struck by this one quote. I think this co ... Read on »
Balancing pain management and public health by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Advertisement for curing morphine addictions from Overland Monthly, January 1900 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I blogged before about the availability of opiates for p ... Read on »
Some people say… by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Ugh. A pretty visible blogger resorts to the “ some people say “ tactic to advance a pet theory that slanders 12-step groups.  It’s worth noting that he’s acknowled ... Read on »
What what? by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism A new study looking at the comparative effectiveness of various coping skills for dealing with urges to drink in preventing relapse reports some counter-intuitive finding ... Read on »
Quitting Smoking and Anxiety by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   A recent study finds that quitting smoking reduces anxiety:   The study followed 491 smokers attending NHS smoking cessat ... Read on »
Number one cause of death among the homeless by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Homeless man in Anchorage, Alaska (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   Wow .   Overdoses of drugs, particularly prescription painkillers and heroin, have ove ... Read on »
Gender Differences in AA Benefits by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism AA meeting sign (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   A recent study reported that men and women benefit from AA in different ways:   For both men and women, p ... Read on »
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