July 17, 2017 | Les C. Lucas, LMFT
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A clinician explains why he never refuses to treat patients who are exhibiting signs of their substance use disorder.
July 12, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Individuals affected by the opioid crisis are benefiting from an expansion of SSTAR's open-access model of service.
July 11, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Research suggests that endocannabinoids play an important role in why prenatal alcohol exposure exacerbates later risk of addiction.
June 21, 2017 | Alison Knopf, Contributing Writer
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Some addiction treatment programs are seeing how the act of giving back can give a boost to patient recovery.
June 14, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Delegates to the American Medical Association (AMA) conference this week voted to support the establishment of pilot safe injection facilities as a public health response to the crisis around injection drug use.
June 1, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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A federal report stating that smokeless tobacco use is holding steady while cigarette smoking declines is being released with strict warnings about smokeless tobacco's dangers.
May 31, 2017 | Brian Duffy, LMHC, LADC-I
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Clinicians can intervene early for a patient in danger, if they understand the relapse chronology.
May 19, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Program leaders at Ashley Addiction Treatment say one effect of the widespread opioid crisis is a young patient population affected by grief that it struggles to process.
May 3, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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Research finds that individuals seeking help for a behavioral health disorder are more likely to know of a family member or friend who did the same.
April 10, 2017 | Gary A. Enos, Editor
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A participant in an April 4 congressional briefing on the opioid crisis focused her remarks on the need for counselors to be part of any multidisciplinary teams addressing the challenge of opioid dependence.
March 23, 2017 | Roland Vendeland, MEd, MA, LPC
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A counselor in an opioid treatment clinic discusses patient misconceptions about addiction and recovery, and how a clinician might address them.
