Dear Dr. Toni: I just turned forty-eight and I live somewhere in South Florida. I have been married for ten years and have two children. I eat a healthy diet and I run three ...
Two drug-related issues have received a lot of public and media attention recently: the dramatic rise in deaths from opioids, and the growing legalization of marijuana in several states with expectations of more states still ...
Over the years our field has seen several addiction models come and go. Way back it was the moral concept, then the disease model, and now we seem to be in the burgeoning neuroscience era. ...
Individuals with behavioral health (BH) disorders and their families frequently experience emotional distress associated with these disorders. This affects their well-being and quality of life if strategies are not used to manage emotions or moods. ...
In my previous article, I discussed issues affecting emotional health and well-being affecting clients with behavioral health (BH) disorders and their families. This follow-up article discusses BH treatments that focus on emotional or mood problems, ...
This feels surreal. In October 1976, almost forty years ago, I welcomed readers to the first issue of The US Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, a twenty-four-page tabloid newspaper which was the very ...
One of the critical elements in evaluating individuals with a substance use disorder is assessing and documenting their substance use (Mee, Lee, Shulman, Fishman, & Gastfriend, 2013; Ries, Fiellin, Miller, & Saitz, 2014; US Department ...
Gambling is fast becoming a public health problem in the United States, especially among emerging adults aged eighteen to twenty-five. Since 1995, rates have doubled with around 7 to 11 percent of the emerging adult ...
“Look at this! They finally proved what we told them twenty years ago!” wrote psychiatrist Charles Whitfield, MD, ten years ago across the top of a just published research report. The article was reporting on ...
Within the chemical dependency treatment field, it is widely accepted that clients greatly improve their odds of remaining in recovery when they adhere to a strict policy of total abstinence. For instance, it is never ...
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