Just when I thought I had heard it all . . . Earlier this summer, California’s Coalinga City Council voted to sell the city’s dormant prison to a company looking to cultivate commercial marijuana ...
At the recommendation of her high school guidance counselor, Mary Beth was invited to join a group where teenagers could talk about the troubles at home because a parent was abusing alcohol or drugs. While ...
Mark is a sixty-nine-year-old family man who is still gainfully employed as a machinist. He was also a lifelong smoker and had no intention to quit, even though he knew it was not in his ...
Eating disorders represent a complicated cluster of conditions within the realm of addiction that often occur within the context of a prior history of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. In this column I will initially highlight ...
In my last column I introduced Pelagius and described his relationship to Augustine of Hippo in relation to their spiritual principles. Let’s continue this discussion. Here is an excerpt from a powerful letter that ...
2016 is the year of the heroin epidemic in the media. We have witnessed it in President Obama’s State of The Union Address as well as on the current presidential campaign trail with both parties ...
It has only been recently that addiction treatment programs have seriously considered the issue of smoking by its patients. Historically, smoking had not been a concern, especially when compared to other drugs of abuse which ...
Dear Dr. Toni: I have been a recovering alcoholic for ten years, although food has never been one of my drugs of choice. I eat healthy foods and I began meditating about a year ...
Tanya Lauer, MA, LPC, has worked in psychiatric hospitals, in-home therapy services, and outpatient trauma centers. Kathleen Parrish, MA, LPC, has spoken at conferences in the US and Europe, has worked in private practice, and ...
Borderline intellectual functioning is included in the DSM-5 as one of many V codes, or “other conditions that may be the focus of clinical attention” (APA, 2013). In the DSM-IV this condition was defined as ...
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