Communicating what programs and professionals do on a daily basis when treating substance use disorder or working with people in recovery has become a complex game of telephone.
The title of this column exemplifies what we have all been experiencing over the past couple years. We have all been subjected to a pervasive COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed over 960,000 American lives (Ritchie ...
During the historic pandemic of COVID-19, the world can surely look like a sinister place. This pandemic has contributed to an increase in death rates, mental health and substance use problems, domestic violence, financial stress, ...
When you hear about Pride Month, what does your mind conjure up? Is it parades, parties, rainbow flags, and endless queer gatherings? Or is it contempt for our flagrant defiance of straight culture? The latter ...
In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, an officer from the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. The events that occurred immediately ...
“Build it and they will come.” This familiar mantra from the movie Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989), has been the long-term modus operandi for behavioral health providers, whether an addiction treatment, acute psychiatric, outpatient, or ...
The concept of capital is at the heart of the transition from a deficits-based to a strengths-based approach, and from a model based on what goes inside people to one much more strongly influenced by ...
That is the question. Although that may be a revised quote taken from a Shakespearean play, it also seems apropos for today’s society. In the world we live in, there is so much division that ...
It is said that you can pass all of the laws in the world to correct societal wrongs, but if no one uses or actively enforces them, nothing will change. Knowing what we know about ...
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