January 31, 2012 News release
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Father Martin’s Ashley, the non-profit alcoholism and drug addiction treatment center, has announced that nominations for the 2012 Father Joseph C. Martin, S.S. Award for Professional Excellence are now being accepted.
November 17, 2011 Barbara Krantz, DO, FASAM, MS
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As a physician reviewing the article by Lee Tannenbaum, MD, in the July/August 2011 issue of Addiction Professional (“ASAM's split personality”), I believe the essay has grossly undermined and inappropriately maligned the supporting non-medical treatments that are essential to high-quality care and evidence-based treatment of the patient with the disease of chemical dependency.
October 4, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Our July/August 2011 issue unleashed strong reader responses ranging from the thoughtful to the accusatory, which gives me an important opportunity to talk about our role as an editorial team.
September 12, 2011 Gary Enos, Editor
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Our July/August 2011 issue unleashed strong reader responses ranging from the thoughtful to the accusatory, which gives me an important opportunity to talk about our role as an editorial team.
August 9, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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It has been assumed that young women often don’t engage in 12-Step meeting environments, because they see them as a male-dominated atmosphere. Yet that notion has rarely been subjected to critical analysis, and now members of Hazelden’s Butler Center for Research have found quite the opposite in a newly published research paper.
July 25, 2011 Peter J. McDonald and Lori I. Furbush
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“It’s time for an AA meeting.” This greeting echoes thousands of times daily across the U.S. as well as in numerous other countries, when members of Alcoholics Anonymous attend their gatherings.
July 25, 2011 Gary Enos, Editor
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A small black-and-white newspaper ad, spotted unexpectedly in the middle of my Sunday sports page last weekend, reminded me of the deep divide between proponents of medication treatments and drug-free therapies.
July 14, 2011 Lee Tannenbaum, MD
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I returned this spring from the American Society of Addiction Medicine's (ASAM's) annual Medical-Scientific Conference in Washington, D.C., and felt compelled to write a commentary regarding what I see as ASAM's split personality.
July 14, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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A. Thomas Horvath, PhD, has advanced alternatives to 12-Step based treatment for the past quarter-century, and he has to admit that perceptions of his work have changed some.
July 12, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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As a minister’s daughter who battled shame in her fight with alcoholism, Mae Abraham found it remarkable that one public figure could do so much to
March 14, 2011 Andrew D. Bennett, CADC II
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Contemporary cosmologists feel free to say anything that pops into their heads. Unhappy examples are everywhere: absurd schemes to model time on
February 23, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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“AA” and “NA” roll off the tongue in the addiction treatment community, but what of “MA,” a 12-Step organization that many still have not heard of?
