Online Happiness Exercises for People in Recovery
Substance use presents a significant public health concern given the high degree of subsequent negative consequences that accompany substance use disorders (SUDs).…
The Current Issue
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2019 Sep-Oct
Addiction Around the World
4 Features
7 Columns
11 Articles
The Features
Breaking the Cycle: Working with Women in the United Kingdom
The aim of this article is to highlight how organizational knowledge and the experience of providing residential rehabilitation for people with drug…
Gambling Addiction and Substance Misuse Among Adolescents in Jamaica
This article seeks to highlight the problems of gambling addiction and substance misuse among Jamaica’s adolescents and how RISE Life Management Services…
A Community-Empowerment Approach to Addiction in Turkey
This article, prepared with the assistance of program staff at the Avcilar Community Center in Istanbul, Turkey, chronicles the developmental process that…
The Columns
Letter from the Publisher
When Inducements Cross the Line As I travel around the state and nation, I meet with counselors, interventionists, navigators, program managers, and…
Viewing Illness as a Teacher
Decades ago, I attended a holistic health conference in San Diego, during which one of the speakers offered the following advice: “The…
Resources for Families and Practitioners
In my last column, I discussed the progress made in the past several years addressing the opioid epidemic and other substance use…
Why Europe Dominates in the Fight Against Opioid Overdose
We have all seen the statistics surrounding the opioid epidemic in this country numerous times, and yet they are still alarming: upward…
Transformational Education and Recovery
A person’s recovery from substance use and abuse is not lifelong and all-powerful; rather, it is something that individuals with proper support networks…
Teaching Emotional Resilience
If addicts and alcoholics use chemicals to avoid uncomfortable emotions, teaching them to feel and tolerate such emotions should be seen as…
Ask the LifeQuake Doctor
Dear Dr. Toni, I’m a thirty-nine-year-old woman who can’t seem to stop herself from giving advice. Is that an addiction? I’ve been…
