“Oola-la . . . that’s what life feels like when you’re happy, growing, and looking forward to what the world has in store for you. It’s the feeling you get when you’ve landed that better ...
I think we can all agree that we cannot treat individuals who are not in treatment to be treated! Therefore, initially engaging patients and retaining them in treatment is a priority. Those points in time ...
I wrote in a previous column that “another epidemic” not receiving sufficient attention is the impact of opioid and other substance misuse and addiction on families and children. Much has been written about the trends ...
Dear Dr. Galardi, I’m a sixty-year-old man who’s been in the real estate business for thirty years, and I’m in burnout from the job. However, I’m not yet financially set up yet to retire. ...
Compassion is the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it” (Merriam-Webster, 2017). Dictionary.com states that compassion is “a feeling of distress and pity for the suffering or misfortune of another, ...
As shall be demonstrated in this series, cultivating the quality of deep-seated contentment constitutes a key cornerstone in integrating a wellness mindset and lifestyle into recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction, and other addictive disorders. This ...
Mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) diagnoses may appear more forthright than they actually are. In contrast to many physical health problems, there is no way to directly and precisely measure a substance use ...
Google the terms “well-being,” “self-care,” “wellness” or “health behaviors” and you will find millions of entries including lists of ways to care for our physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and financial health. The growing fields of ...
Dear Dr. Galardi, I am a therapist who has been working at a treatment facility for about a year, although I’ve been in the treatment field for many years. I am in my mid-sixties ...
The term “substance dependence” is very commonly used. In fact, it was one of the two listed substance use disorders (SUDs) in the DSM-IV (APA, 1994), which included “substance abuse” and “substance dependence.” This classification ...
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