Addiction & Recovery articles from March 1992

Addiction & Recovery archives from March 1992

Counselors' "12 steps" to treatment effectiveness. (Editorial)
March 1, 1992... As substance abuse professionals, we spent a great deal of time reading and attending educational seminars in an attempt to better our counseling skills. What gets over looked in this quest for knowledge is our attitude and approach toward...

Is inpatient care best? What the Harvard study really said. (interview with Diana C. Walsh) (Interview)
March 1, 1992... Last September a research team from the Harvard School of Public Health Boston University released a study that many said vindicated Minnesota model inpatient care as the superior treatment modality for alcohol abuse. Briefly, alcohol-abusing...

What is good research (and what good is it)? (interview with John P. Allen) (Interview)
March 1, 1992... It may be "the largest alcoholism treatment effectiveness study ever conducted. "So says Dr. John P. Allen of NIAAA on its recently-begun Project Match, a national study involving nearly 2,000 patients and nine major treatment facilities...

Relapse: not a reason to give up.
March 1, 1992... The administrator of a large hospital recently gave me a tour. As he showed me the cancer, cardiac, renal dialysis units, he emphatically told me that the hospital was committed to these chronically ill patients. He stated with pride that no...

Treatment works? Proving it to EAPs. (employee assistance programs, excerpt from an interview with Irene B. Ansher)
March 1, 1992... Word from the field has it that EAPs themselves may be in some jeopardy due to corporate budget crunches in health care, and they--like providers--have to justify their existences. In the addictions area, this means that treatment...

Speaking the same language: understanding the needs of patients and managed care.
March 1, 1992... Does treatment work? The current controversy is not so much a debate over whether treatment works, but rather a collision between two different philosophies of what treatment should be. The Minnesota Model (28 days, introduction to the...

Rebuilding Self-Worth in Recovery.
March 1, 1992... This is a sensitively-written and earnest description of the recovery experience. Cecil C. is obviously a compassionate human being who has benefitted greatly from his own personal drama which he shares with his readers. We can only imagine...

Step Zero: Getting to Recovery.
March 1, 1992... This is an insightful book that uses case study examples to reveal the internal process of addiction from the active addict's perspective. It seeks to help the "reluctant to recover" addict through thoughtful information that, hopefully, will...

Deep Recovery.
March 1, 1992... Deep Recovery is practical, interesting, and enlightening. Far from being a cookbook of "How To's," this marvelous, readable book is actually a guide for learning to create your own recipes for living. This is a book about conscious and...

Substance Abuse and Employee Rehabilitation.
March 1, 1992... Although alcohol and drug problems have existed for generations in the United States, both in the broad society and in the workplace, no one comprehensive text has appeared to enable employers to address these problems. Recently, however,...

How to Quit Drinking Without A.A.
March 1, 1992... This book is mis-titled. It is not anti-A.A. Alcoholics Anonymous is not only an option, but is recommended frequently throughout the book, which lists "nine ways A.A. can help" (pp. 70-71). Although aimed first at those who for whatever...

Tumbleweeds.
March 1, 1992... This volume is a guidebook for therapists working with ACOAs in a group setting. The author focuses on key issues that arise in group treatment: emotions, relationships, confrontation, control and separation. These are presented in a way to...

Addictions Counseling: A Practical Guide to Counseling People with Chemical and Other Addictions.
March 1, 1992... Although there has been much written about addictions, it is difficult to find a book which concisely addresses major aspects of the treatment and recovery processes. This is just such a book. The author delineates the various models,...

Sex and Recovery.
March 1, 1992... This presentation centers around a lecture by Harry Croft, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in sex therapy and chemical dependency. Its purpose is to help recovering people understand and reclaim their sexual functioning. The first half...

Women: Coming Out of the Shadows.
March 1, 1992... Narrated by Mariette Hartley, this video adopts the format used in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings: (1) what it was like using drugs/alcohol, (2) what happened as the impetus for taking steps toward recovery, and (3) what it's like now, all as...

Treating opioid addiction: a model for matching.
March 1, 1992... A number of leading law enforcement and addiction policy experts have obserbed clear signs that the U.S. may be in for a sharp increase in the use of illicit opiates during the next several years. The bases for this disturbing prediction...

The enhanced treatment project: focus on new strategies.
March 1, 1992... Today's substance abusers present a greater challenge to health care professionals than abusers did several decades ago. This population, frequently addicted to cocaine or its derivative "crack," polydrug-involved, and suffering from a...

You don't need A.A. for successful treatment: mind and body are involved in this alternative to A.A. (Alcoholics Anonymous)
March 1, 1992... This decade shows great promise in advancing the field of alcoholism treatment. Two trends appear significant: 1) The proliferation of alternatives to A.A.; and 2) The succes of treatment programs using a whole person approach. ...

Listen to the customer. (Perspectives in Managed Care )
March 1, 1992... Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop sponsored by the National Treatment Consortium for Alcohol and Other Drugs. The National Treatment Consortium (NTC) is a group that has, for the last several years, successfully been...

Adolescent aftercare: issues and challenges.
March 1, 1992... Adolescents who are chemically dependent or dually diagnosed have special issues and needs both in primary treatment and in continuing care. Contnuing the habilitation process and rebuilding ing family's communication, both of which began in...