In 1978 First Lady Betty Ford declared before a national TV audience, “My name is Betty Ford. I am an alcoholic.” That year the stigma of addiction was at an all-time low. Surveys indicated that ...
Substance use and abuse remains one of the major public health problems amongst American youth. A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; 2013c) estimated that on a daily basis more ...
Trauma model therapy (TMT) is a treatment model that I developed over a period of years (Ross, 2007; Ross & Halpern, 2009). It is supported by a series of prospective outcome studies (Ellason and Ross, ...
Substance abuse in all its forms represents a major public health problem for our country. Economically, costs are well above those for other chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Health-wise, substance abuse can be ...
Abstinence‐based treatment, derived from the Minnesota model of addiction treatment, is based on the concept that addiction is a disease, and the belief that through counseling and continued support, addicted people can recover as long ...
Recovery counseling is based on a new paradigm for alcohol and drug counseling. Before I explain this new concept, let’s discuss the model that has dominated the field for over eighty years. The paradigm ...
The developmental stage spanning from mid-adolescence to early adulthood is critical in setting one’s life course in general, and this also applies to the onset of substance use disorders (SUDs): SUD rates triple from 7 ...
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the ...
For centuries we have known the impact of alcoholism and drug addiction on children and families. Today parental substance abuse commonly involves alcohol and other drugs, as well as mental health problems, poverty, and violence. ...
One of the pleasurable discoveries within my explorations of the literature of addiction psychiatry has been the work of Joseph Westermeyer, MD, PhD. That discovery was made many years ago while first researching the history ...
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