February 12, 2012 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Rosecrance Health Network identified a patient exercise that combined art therapy with some Valentine's Day caring.
January 30, 2012 Sigurd H. Zielke and Rachelle Gardner
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In 2006 Fairbanks received a public school charter and opened Hope Academy, the recovery high school at Fairbanks, with its first class of 28 students. Today, more than 250 students have attended Hope Academy and more than 30 have graduated, with the majority of the alumni attending college or schools offering an advanced technical education.
January 17, 2012 News release
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Teenagers are more susceptible to developing disorders like addiction and depression, according to a new paper published by University of Pittsburgh researchers.
January 17, 2012 Gary Enos, Editor
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Riverside County, Calif.’s public defender is asking a court to order that a well-regarded treatment alternative to incarceration be made available to offenders who self-identify as gay.
December 14, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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While the number of potential substances that can attract teen users has grown so large that it threatens to overwhelm the annual survey instrument used for the much-watched Monitoring the Future report, the historical major substances of abuse still capture the greatest share of attention in communities and among national leaders.
December 14, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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A substance use prevention curriculum developed by the University of Georgia’s Center for Family Research targets a number of underserved communities, including rural areas and older adolescents.
October 26, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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On college campuses, the benefits of an alcohol prevention course taken in the fall semester might not persist into the spring.
October 12, 2011 Gary Enos, Editor
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For the third year, the group Writers in Treatment is holding a film festival in Los Angeles as part of its mission to finance substance use treatment services for writers of all types. The REEL Recovery Film Festival takes place this weekend, Oct. 14-16, at the Beverly Garland Hotel Theater in North Hollywood.
September 18, 2011 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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“Depression is endemic in the African Americans community,” said Gooding, who gave a presentation at the 2011 National Conference on Addiction Disorders (NCAD) titled “Depression, Self Medication, and Cocaine: Unraveling an African American Dilemma.”
July 20, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Many are willing to go to bat for a significant cause. Yet how many would go so far as to change their name—all in the name of bettering another’s life?
July 14, 2011 Joseph M. Amico, MDiv, CAS, LISAC
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Back in the early 1990s when folks first started talking about dual diagnosis, I used to ask, “What do you mean dual diagnosis?” Typically responders would try to give me a definition of the term. My next comment would be, “I understand what dual diagnosis means. I just don't have any patients who have only two diagnoses!”
July 14, 2011 Gary A. Enos, Editor
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William Leary With so many attorneys working through a court system at a pace often defying logic, members of the profession face numerous
