After years of continuous recovery from heroin addiction, Daryll had dental surgery and received prescription opioids for postsurgery pain. His addiction was reignited after several days of using the drug.Beth, addicted to methamphetamine, developed “meth ...
I believe that the development and three subsequent revisions of The ASAM Criteria (Mee-Lee et al., 2013), along with motivational interviewing (MI) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT), have made the greatest contributions to assessment and placement ...
Overwhelment occurs when we experience severe overload to the point where we feel mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually depleted. While the adage that “God never gives us more than we can handle” may hold true, ...
In the past five years, there has been a greater focus on patients who are readmitted to the hospital within thirty days. This is in part because Medicare is paying less for readmissions and in ...
Dear Dr. Galardi,I’m a therapist at a residential treatment facility. What I’m writing you about is very difficult for me to talk about to anyone because it involves someone else with great visibility. I’ve been ...
Adolescence, by its very nature, is full of turmoil as we transition developmentally from childhood to adulthood. These are the hurricane years when the winds pull us in many directions, sometimes even unpredictably throwing us ...
Any useful analysis of adolescents and pornography must first start with facts. The first and most important fact to understand is that kids engage with and through technology as much if not more than they ...
American adolescents now face a staggering burden of mental illness. It is an epidemic without precedent. An estimated 32 percent of United States teens have already experienced at least one DSM-based anxiety disorder, and over ...
Dear Dr. Galardi,I’m a physician who treats morbidly obese patients for weight loss. I have three children and a boyfriend. I’m fifty years old and because I’m prominent in my community, I haven’t felt safe ...
Stories of victory over substance abuse are compelling: The high school athlete who turns his life of opiate abuse into a college career, the young mother who reunites with her toddler after overcoming meth abuse, ...
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