September 15, 2011 Gary Enos, Editor
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Addiction professionals have long been told that clients presenting with co-occurring addiction and mental health disorders constitute the expectation, not the exception.
September 9, 2011 Dan Griffin
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Over the next three months my colleague, Rick Dauer, a co-author of the Helping Men Recover curriculum, is going to share the impact that being involved in the development of this new framework for men's treatment has had on him personally and professionally as well as on the men going through the curriculum and the professional staff delivering it.
August 30, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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The nation’s largest network of addiction treatment operations has embarked on an effort to be looked at as the recognized leader in clinical excellence, and its executives insist that this will come with some vocabulary changes within the organization. Prescriptive approaches to treatment will give way to “client-directed care,” they say, and “aftercare” will be removed from the language entirely, in favor of more robust “recovery plans” for clients.
May 17, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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The University of Pennsylvania and the large nonprofit treatment organization Phoenix House have formed a “science-to-service” partnership that will
May 14, 2011 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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Ten years ago, Adi Jaffe lived a life where “different people knew different sides of me, and everything else was kept in the dark.” The description refers to the years he spent selling a variety of illegal drugs, including methamphetamine, which would become his own drug of choice and fueled a long struggle with addiction.
January 6, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Parent: It’s the job the Betty Ford Center’s Jerry Moe calls the most important he’ll ever have, and the one he was least adequately prepared to
September 21, 2010 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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University of Illinois Professor Douglas C. Smith considers the role of peers to be an untapped resource in the treatment of young people ages 18 to
August 31, 2010 Karen Dodge, PhD, Barbara Krantz, DO, FASAM, MS, and Paul J. Kenny, PhD
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The fields of medicine and addiction treatment are both moving toward evidence-based practice. This approach is focused on determining what
July 20, 2010 John W. McIlveen, Med, LMHC
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The issue of research’s impact on clinicians and patient care in the helping professions is not a new one. In 1949, at the Boulder Conference on
June 15, 2010 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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The signature research project of Robert Zucker, PhD, has been going on since the 1980s, when many of its now young-adult subjects were small
June 8, 2010 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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When Kevin McCauley was sent to a military prison for a year, he decided to immerse himself in learning about the disease that had held a grip on
January 1, 2010
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I read with great interest Nicholas Roes' recent article on Motivational Interviewing (September/October 2009 issue). You have said in two
