Addiction & Recovery articles from September 1991

Addiction & Recovery archives from September 1991

Middle recovery: an introspective journey. (Recovery, part 4) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1991... Bill was astonished. He could not believe that he had missed this before. Despite four previous treatments, what he saw on the worksheet before him was completely new, an insight into his personal make up that seemed veiled in darkness...

Anabolic-androgenic steroid use-abuse (in males) progression chart.
September 1, 1991... Introduction Athletes have been using special aids in an attempt to improve performance since the early days of organized sports competition. In ancient Greece and Rome, athletes believed that if they consumed specific body organs of...

Training clinical managers.
September 1, 1991... Many larger treatment programs have clinical managers, men and women who oversee the clinical care. These professionals occupy the "number two" slot under the program director and supervise program coordinators and senior counselors. During...

Relapse - issues and answers. (cocaine treatment relapse) (Column)
September 1, 1991... In the May/June issue of Addition and Recovery I described how recovering people build to the point where they crave cocaine by moving through three stages. Stage One, setup behaviors, is a time when physical, psychological and social...

Adapting the chronic disease model in the treatment of the dual diagnosed patient.
September 1, 1991... Malvern Institute is a thirty-five bed residential treatment center in Malvern, PA. The staff of Malvern have been treating the chemically dependent since 1946, and dually diagnosed patients since 1981. In the Delaware Valley, dual...