Adolescents and Young Adults
About 25 to 50 percent of justice-involved youth (JIY) have a substance use disorder (SUD; Teplin, Abram, McClelland, Dulcan, & Mericle, 2002;…
Young adulthood is a unique time of life, filled with new experiences, new beginnings, and fraught with new obstacles and challenges. Young…
Adolescence is a turbulent time in the best of circumstances, riddled with paradoxes and pressures, subconscious drives, and conscious desires. Adolescents are…
A couple of parents came into therapy complaining about their sixteen-year-old son doing poorly in school, drinking, smoking pot (“He’s addicted!”), and…
As resources expand to address our nation’s growing substance use disorder (SUD) crisis, public health policymakers are rapidly adopting new approaches to…
As I am writing this column at the peak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in early April, I need to prognosticate several…
Being a father is one of most important roles a man can have in his life. It comes with great responsibility and…
It seemed to happen overnight: one day in March I was attending a Twelve Step recovery meeting and receiving my twenty-two-year sobriety…
Imagine you had a child (a young adult) who was secreted away to treatment for COVID-19, and no one would talk about…
Your reputation as a behavioral health care professional can easily be undone by something as simple as a few inappropriate SEO practices…
The abrupt shift in the delivery of behavioral health care due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is unparalleled. Plans to enhance behavioral…
When people are asked to describe substance use prevention, most (including youth), define it as telling someone not to do drugs and…
