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Recent articles from Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly

Botticelli Finally in as Deputy Director at ONDCP
November 19, 2012... Michael Botticelli, nominated by President Obama almost a year ago to be deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the position most recently occupied by A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D., who left in April 2010, is finally in the number-two post at the key...

HD Videoconferencing Offers a Treatment Alternative
November 19, 2012... Instead of going to a physical treatment program, which some people regard as too intrusive, people who want to recover from alcohol or drug addiction can now participate in online high-definition videoconferencing, in groups and in individual therapy, at Lionrock Recovery. Called an...

Model Recovery Community Centers Focus on Engagement
November 19, 2012... If there are two things Bev Haberle wants people to know about recovery community centers, it is that they are not aftercare and not alternatives to treatment. Haberle is executive director of the Council of Southeast Pennsylvania, formerly the Bucks County Council on Alcoholism and Drug...

Livengrin Defines Special Programs but Avoids Abundance of Tracks
November 19, 2012... The madness of marketing became clear to Livengrin Foundation President and CEO Richard M. Pine on a recent visit to an addiction treatment facility in the South. The relatively small treatment center had attached practically every thinkable treatment track to its stated mission. "The...

ACA Impact: Residential Treatment Threatened by Lack of Data, MAT
November 19, 2012... The residential treatment modality that is close to the heart of many treatment center executives is being threatened by the industry's own lack of outcome data and by medication-assisted treatment (MAT), according to farsighted spokesmen for private treatment who are closely following the...