What is contingency management? How has COVID-19 changed the use of CM in treatment?
Perpetuating negative perceptions of people who have addiction—whether or not they are in remission—has consequences.
So much comes to mind when we talk about clients disclosing their sexual orientation or gender expression. How to treat clients in the LGBTQIA+ community.
Currently, individuals in this community—like many individuals in other oppressed and stigmatized communities in America today—are struggling with increased anxiety and depression, often intensifying other existing mental health issues.
What is NALGAP? What are their goals? This article talks about the history and future of the National Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies.
There are plenty of references to 'spontaneous healing' in health and medicine.
There are many pathways to recovery for individuals and family members. Awareness of these paths—professional, mutual aid, self-directed—and the many positive outcomes of clinical trials and surveys of individuals and/or families in recovery may help ...
What are the three reasons most often given as to why those with drinking problems can't get sober?
"Even if programs chose other separate treatment models, it is important to include all of the components in the treatment process to ensure the best possible treatment outcomes.
COVID brought a side effect of an increase in drinking.
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