Kudos to media giants of the past and present Time magazine and Netflix for shining a focused and humane light on the worst addiction epidemic in US history: the opioid crisis.According to the Huffington Post, ...
My previous article reviewed data on trends in use, misuse, and addiction to prescription opioids, tranquilizers, seda-tives, and stimulants; signs of misuse and addiction; reasons for use, and the effects of drug problems on individu-als ...
While the use and abuse of opioids (prescribed and illicit) in this country is not new, the magnitude of the current opioid crisis still is very significant. Many people have tried to explain it and ...
The dictionary defines a mentor as “a trusted counselor or guide” (Merriam-Webster, 2018). We have all been influenced by mentors in our lives-positive role models who have taken a personal interest in us and both ...
My previous article reviewed data on trends in use, misuse, and addiction to prescription opioids, tranquilizers, seda-tives, and stimulants; signs of misuse and addiction; reasons for use, and the effects of drug problems on individu-als ...
Introspection can lead people to look at the pluses and minuses of life. It will cause people to look at things that have been done well and things that could have been done better. It ...
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “Alcohol and tobacco are the drugs most commonly abused by adolescents, followed by marijuana. The next most popular substances differ between age groups. Young adolescents tend ...
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, a wonderful (and often missed) opportunity to not only help your clients understand how alcohol affects them, but also to help them focus on the messages theyíre sending their children. ...
The new push for addiction counselors these days is to be client centered. This means a focus on compassion, collaboration, and especially meeting clients where they are, but what does that really mean? To meet ...
Longtime readers of Counselor will recognize that we are smaller, down from sixty-four pages to forty-eight pages. Let me assure you that this will not diminish the quality of content in our independent publication. While ...
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