In keeping with this issue’s focus on adolescents, this column will initially focus on research findings concerning the predominant emphasis, in many settings, of prescribing antidepressants as a first line of attack in treating major ...
From one hundred people and one Big Book to millions of recovering people spanning the globe, the history of addiction treatment and recovery has now come to converge in one place: California. After decades of ...
A colleague recently referred Eve to me. Only eighteen, Eve looks very sweet and has lovely, sparkling blue eyes.
Dear Dr. Toni: I am a fifty-four-year-old female therapist. I practice somewhere in South Florida. Last week my husband of twenty years left me for a younger woman. I have been in recovery for ...
This is the final installment in a three-column series dealing with aging and wellness in recovery. The first two columns focused on threats to sobriety that often accompany aging and suggestions for counteracting these hazards, ...
Addiction specialists are bracing for the impact of a new killer drug, what some fear represents an impending tsunami. The drug is one of the most potent synthetic opioids known to man and has worsened ...
I’ve been reading the private writings of Mother Teresa called Come Be My Light (2009) where she talks about a “darkness” that came upon her towards the end of her life. She says that “If ...
Early in the history of addiction treatment the field realized that adolescents were not “short adults,” and that they presented with different problems and needs from adults. This awareness resulted in the development of adolescent-specific ...
As we enter a new year, change is absolutely everywhere you look, from a new White House to fresh crops of marijuana on the west coast . . . and just about everything in between. ...
“Experiences like growing up with parental addiction, and the chaos and stress that surround it, pop up over and over again as primary causes of toxic stress. But addiction isn’t the only thing we’re looking ...
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