As you are probably aware, our nation—and indeed the world—suffer from a growing epidemic of obesity. A recent Los Angeles Times piece really drove home to me how serious the problem has become (Healy, 2016). ...
This is a question that produces all sorts of conflicting answers and heated rhetoric depending on whom you ask. History If we go back in time, one of the earliest references to the ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I have had issues with food my entire life. I think it started in Catholic school when I was about eleven years old and began developing breasts. The nuns in the ...
Those of us who are actively suffering from addictive disorders or are in recovery are intimately familiar with the addictive self, which stands in stark contrast to the healthy self we strive to bring forth ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I am a thirty-one-year-old woman who is a total loser at love. I have no problem attracting men, but within a month to six weeks they stop calling. I don’t understand ...
Our annual special issue on adolescents and young adults could not come at a more critical time. With the current and highly publicized opioid epidemic, the move toward decriminalization of marijuana, and more and ...
Young people and adults use all types of substances (NIDA, 2015). Although rates of use are decreasing for some synthetic drugs, too many youth continue to use these drugs, which are man-made chemicals with a ...
If you read my column in the last issue of Counselor, you have probably figured out that the “Drug X” I described is alcohol. This is the number one drug problem in the US and ...
In part one of this column—featured in the April issue of Counselor—I began outlining the ten p’s of my friend and colleague Dr. Michael Flaherty. These ten p’s are needed to address addiction and recovery ...
While treatment for substance use disorders may be a relatively new development, the problem is not, as evidenced by “Noah plants a vineyard, is drunken and mocked by Ham” (Luke 21:34 New International Version). Addiction ...
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