Should I Tell My TBI Rehab Staff About My Previous Addiction?

 

I’m in rehab for a brain injury but haven’t told my therapists that I am also an addict. My family says I should tell them, but I think why should I? I’m clean now, so what difference would it make?

 

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Posted on BrainLine August 24, 2011.

About the author: John Corrigan, PhD

Dr. John Corrigan is a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Ohio State University, and director of the Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation. He is the project director for the Ohio Regional Traumatic Brain Injury Model System.

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