As a clinician, working with young adults (ages eighteen to twenty-nine) can pose many challenges. Overall, young adults exhibit the highest rates of cannabis use (19 percent), alcohol use (59.6 percent), binge drinking (37.9 percent), ...
The healing process from the trauma of addiction is not just related to past explanations of our trauma, but also the direct experience of our emotional thoughts and feelings, and the remnants of those emotions ...
My introduction to alternative therapies came when I graduated from medical school in 1977 with high grades and a disappointed outlook on medicine. I decided to drop out and live on the road in a ...
Almost everyone who has been touched by addiction has a story about a turning point or revelation of new awareness. For those of us who are in recovery as well as being in the helping ...
Safe-injection sites, also known as supervised injection facilities, fix rooms, safer-injection facilities, drug-consumption facilities, or medically supervised centers were first developed in Australia and then in Vancouver, British Columbia (Dolan et al., 2000). The idea ...
HIV was a crisis of the magnitude never before seen in America. It was a tangle of issues, many of which were steeped in morality. Everyone seemed to have an answer, from sequestering patients on ...
In my previous column I discussed the daily challenges shared by clients in co-occurring disorders treatment groups that I regularly conduct in an intensive outpatient program (IOP). In this column, I discuss an issue that ...
It is with a degree of sadness, and a whole lot of appreciation to the new stewards of this magazine, that I sign off. As the cocreator of Counselor and its predecessors The US Journal ...
Substance use disorders (SUDs) tend to run in families, but so does recovery! Both need external programs and support so all members of the family can heal at their own pace and in their own ...
As a wellness advocate, I embrace a strong commitment to encouraging people to enhance both their quantitative level of health and well-being, and the qualitative dimensions of their lives, through actively pursuing a wellness-oriented lifestyle. ...
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