The Social History of Substance Use Disorders

I think there is some shame attenuation effect that happens if you can link it to family history because then it sort of highlights that for the patient. substance use disorders are quite heritable as we know and they are quite biological so I think that's one benefit from kind of transitioning from family history to substance use disorder really okay so now the social history this is the fun part I like to spend time on the social history. We're really spoiled in our career to get to take a social history from so many people, how many different life stories we hear and learn from.