Whitepapers

Holistic Continuity of Care in Juvenile Drug Treatment

Learn some of the reasoning and methods for infectious disease testing and counseling in a juvenile treatment setting.

Considering Online Higher Education? Get the Inside Perspective

The CalSouthern Connection is a terrific resource for any counselor, addiction specialist or mental health professional considering going back to school to earn a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree online. Online education can be a great way for working professionals to continue their education, but what is it really like and what can you expect?

Psychotherapy and Substance Abuse

Substance  abuse is a complex, multidimensional disorder. While it is traditionally  characterized as a "biopsychosocial" disease, the role of  psychotherapy in treating addiction is paradoxically given short shrift or  ignored completely in traditional treatment approaches based on the disease  model.

Addiction as a Brain Disease: Learning How to Unchain Your Brain

There is much to understand about addiction and the brain. What is it about our brains that make some of us more vulnerable to addiction than others? What can we do to break free from these addictions? A new resource Unchain Your Brain offers answers to these questions and provides the tools needed to break free from addictions, rediscover the pleasure of developing satisfying relationships with family and friends, and regain personal health. Unchain Your Brain is coauthored by David E.

Get the Most Out of Drug Testing

More than 50 million urine, hair and oral fluid samples are tested annually in the United States alone. However, urine drug testing is particularly vulnerable to people cheating the test in order to hide the fact that they are illegally using drugs. There are many ways to combat these attempts such as education, consequences, and taking a hard look at your testing program. See how in this whitepaper; Get the Most Out of Drug Testing: Stop Drug Test Cheating.
 

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Moving Beyond Addiction—Taking the 12 Steps a Few Steps Further . . .

Getting sober and staying sober is a critical first step on the road to recovery. However, there are many "next steps" that also need to be addressed to support long-term recovery. Transitional living programs that use an integrated approach help residents create meaningful lives by combining a traditional 12-step approach with additional onsite support tools and life skills training.
 

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