The 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, once said that “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic” (Kennedy, 1962). We ...
History is never linear, although it is often perceived as such (White, 2012). This is also true for the history of addiction recovery in America, which has witnessed numerous cycles of growth and decline (White, ...
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 ...
Over sixty years of research has led the field of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to conclude that the therapeutic alliance between counselors and clients is one of the key determinants of treatment outcome, accounting ...
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