Dear Dr. Toni: I am a thirty-one-year-old woman who is a total loser at love. I have no problem attracting men, but within a month to six weeks they stop calling. I don’t understand ...
The garden is alive at this time of year. New growth surrounds us. Springtime is represented by the wood element in Oriental Medicine. The organs that relate to the wood element are the liver ...
In the political world we are seeing the conflicting ideas of “revolution” as opposed to the “establishment.” I’m suggesting a similar battle is being played out between the orthodoxy of religion as opposed to the ...
Our annual special issue on adolescents and young adults could not come at a more critical time. With the current and highly publicized opioid epidemic, the move toward decriminalization of marijuana, and more and ...
Young people and adults use all types of substances (NIDA, 2015). Although rates of use are decreasing for some synthetic drugs, too many youth continue to use these drugs, which are man-made chemicals with a ...
If you read my column in the last issue of Counselor, you have probably figured out that the “Drug X” I described is alcohol. This is the number one drug problem in the US and ...
In part one of this column—featured in the April issue of Counselor—I began outlining the ten p’s of my friend and colleague Dr. Michael Flaherty. These ten p’s are needed to address addiction and recovery ...
While treatment for substance use disorders may be a relatively new development, the problem is not, as evidenced by “Noah plants a vineyard, is drunken and mocked by Ham” (Luke 21:34 New International Version). Addiction ...
“Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse has been a life-altering influence for so many people, including me. I first met Sharon in my mother’s living room, thirty-six years ago, when she was doing a weekend of work with my ...
Have you heard the joke about the lesbian and the U-Haul? It goes like this: What does a lesbian bring on a second date? The punch line, an in-joke about the potent emotional entwinement that ...
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