Is life so difficult for some adolescents in America that they don’t want to get out of bed each day? While presenting a clinical workshop at a long-term residential treatment center I met a young ...

In 1978 First Lady Betty Ford declared before a national TV audience, “My name is Betty Ford. I am an alcoholic.” That year the stigma of addiction was at an all-time low. Surveys indicated that ...

Substance use and abuse remains one of the major public health problems amongst American youth. A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; 2013c) estimated that on a daily basis more ...

Trauma model therapy (TMT) is a treatment model that I developed over a period of years (Ross, 2007; Ross & Halpern, 2009). It is supported by a series of prospective outcome studies (Ellason and Ross, ...

Substance abuse in all its forms represents a major public health problem for our country. Economically, costs are well above those for other chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Health-wise, substance abuse can be ...

Abstinence‐based treatment, derived from the Minnesota model of addiction treatment, is based on the concept that addiction is a disease, and the belief that through counseling and continued support, addicted people can recover as long ...