Addiction & Recovery articles from July 1992

Addiction & Recovery archives from July 1992

It costs too much. (drug abuse counseling) (Editorial)
July 1, 1992... Remember the good old days? You would get a referral from an employer or an EAP, you would admit the client to an intensive residential program (28 days or thereabouts), you would discharge the client and submit your bill for several thousand...

Drug-free workplace: expert advice on getting involved. (interview with Lee I. Dogoloff and Donald I. Macdonald) (Interview)
July 1, 1992... Peck: Aside from certain legal requirements that have evolved in recent years--the Drug-Free Workplace Act, Department of Transportation rules, and so forth--why is it important to focus on the workplace in dealing with substance abuse? ...

If you've got it, flaunt it. (marketing in the treatment industry)
July 1, 1992... While we in the treatment field may not relish the thought, the fact is that our treatment programs were designed and implemented in a very reactive manner. By "reactive" is meant that the programs came into existence and were molded by people...

Workplace intervention.
July 1, 1992... Traditionally, intervention has ment having a group confront a person who abuses alcohol to get him or her to go for treatment. Such is not the case for interventions in the work place. This requires different methods and criteria, and it may...

Ethical dilemmas in the drug-free workplace.
July 1, 1992... Companies that, quite justifiably, seek to preserve or create drug-free workplaces cannot help but encounter ethical issues. For those companies and the addictions treatment providers who serve them, I overview some of these ethical issues...

Creating a relapse prevention program in your treatment center.
July 1, 1992... Every treatment center in the nation treats relapse-prone patients. The question is whether they are going to do it well or poorly. Many treatment programs, unfortunately, deal poorly with relapse-prone patients because they are not using...

When the client needs drug therapy. (interview with Sheldon Miller) (Interview)
July 1, 1992... Depression and anxiety are very commonly observed when treating an addiction, and sometimes their persistence can undo all the counselor's good work, leading to relapse and continued suffering for the client. Informed referral for medical...

Why you should consider on-site drug testing. (includes related article)
July 1, 1992... Drug testing is being used to help provide a drug-free workplace, as a treatment tool, and to monitor criminal offenders. The constitutional battle over drug testing has been decided in favor of drug testing.[1] As a result, the opponents of...

On-site urinalysis: its advantages and implementation.
July 1, 1992... During the early and mid-80's, with the ever-growing number of adolescents passing through the juvenile justice system, our department began using urinalysis. This was, and still is, viewed as a valuable tool in the therapeutic milieu of the...

Meet the "third paradigm" - and shape it before it shapes you. (Perspectives in Managed Care)
July 1, 1992... The behavioral healthcare industry is entering the era of "the third paradigm." In the first paradigm, which began with Freud's discovery of the unconsious one hundred years ago, we learned that much of our behavior was outside of conscious...

Why scholarship should be more popular.
July 1, 1992... Are counselors more wedded to commercially popular viewpoints than to science? They are indeed, in this author's perhaps controversial opinion, and she offers guidance toward becoming more "scientific" The lack of acceptance of the...

The assessment basis. (Adolescent Screening Tests, part 1)
July 1, 1992... Use of screening tests in adolescent substance abusers is a recent practice. They have no more value, however, than the assessment that precedes them. Screening and assessing the adolescent client can be helped considerably through the...

Rethinking recovery: toward a cease-fire in our theoretical turf wars. (Editorial)
July 1, 1992... The Recovery Movement -- recovery from addictions, compulsions, codependence, and from growing up in a dysfunctional family --is under attack. Opposing forces are mobilizing on every front: in magazines, journals, books, during workshops, on...