Mindfulness Interventions for Residential SUD Treatment
As a clinician, working with young adults (ages eighteen to twenty-nine) can pose many challenges. Overall, young adults exhibit the highest rates…
The Current Issue
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2019 Jan-Feb
4 Features
8 Columns
12 Articles
The Features
The Flow of Recovery
The healing process from the trauma of addiction is not just related to past explanations of our trauma, but also the direct…
Science Backs “Alternative,” Holistic Healing
My introduction to alternative therapies came when I graduated from medical school in 1977 with high grades and a disappointed outlook on…
EMDR Therapy and Addiction: The New Frontier
Almost everyone who has been touched by addiction has a story about a turning point or revelation of new awareness. For those…
The Columns
Harm Reduction, Safe-Injection Sites, and Naloxone
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…
Legal Cannabis: Does it Intersect with Recovery?
HIV was a crisis of the magnitude never before seen in America. It was a tangle of issues, many of which were…
Managing Persistent or Residual Symptoms
In my previous column I discussed the daily challenges shared by clients in co-occurring disorders treatment groups that I regularly conduct in…
Time Flies and Everything Changes
It is with a degree of sadness, and a whole lot of appreciation to the new stewards of this magazine, that I…
NACoA is Thinking About . . .
Substance use disorders (SUDs) tend to run in families, but so does recovery! Both need external programs and support so all members…
Stroke Prevention: An Important Cornerstone of Wellness
As a wellness advocate, I embrace a strong commitment to encouraging people to enhance both their quantitative level of health and well-being,…
Ask the LifeQuake Doctor
Dear Dr Toni, Is there truly such a thing as workaholism? My partner, who’s a healer in the addiction field, is convinced…
Sober Living: A Community Benefit
The opioid epidemic is far from contained; in 2017, the national death toll from drug overdoses climbed to a record high of…
