Addiction Professional articles from January 2007

Addiction Professional archives from January 2007

This campaign will be hard to miss.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... This issue's main cover story illustrates that addiction field organizations are becoming more sophisticated in their advocacy and public awareness efforts. Campaigns have grown beyond the days when they leaned on simple taglines such as "just...

Discussion of mandated treatment ignores group dynamics.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... The apparent success of mandated treatment has led to some recent publicity, including the article "Mandated Clients Finding Their Way" (see November 2006 issue) and an article entitled "Court Mandated Treatment Works as Well as Voluntary" in...

Incentives offer a dangerous path.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... I recently retired from the treatment business. The approach of offering incentives (September/October 2006 issue) would be welcomed by the current very entitled addicts who feel the world owes them whatever. My experience since 1971 has been...

Lenair's approach worth consideration.(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... As a psychiatrist practicing for more than 25 years, I have been following Rhonda Lenair's work (September/October 2006 issue) for some time now. Her hands-on healing work is remarkable in its ability to eliminate alcoholism. She is a "doctor...

Let's not be afraid of harm reduction.(Commentary)
January 1, 2007... At the recent SECAD '06 conference for addiction professionals, an entire day on the agenda was devoted to the promise of medications for enhancing outcomes in the treatment of chemical dependence. Whereas most medications are intended to...

Awareness campaign tackles treatment: a new effort for the PDFA appears to drive demand for services.(Cover story)
January 1, 2007... The Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) has long been associated with communicating the nation's most visible drug and alcohol abuse prevention messages through public service announcements. With the help of advertising agencies that...

Reforming the process of care: treatment network participants make self-analysis a standard part of operations.
January 1, 2007... Leaders in the addiction treatment and research communities have lamented that with governments traditionally having been the primary purchaser of addiction services, treatment businesses have not commonly faced much pressure to improve their...

Balancing body and mind in treatment: centers see biochemical repair as a needed element for success.
January 1, 2007... Long-term sobriety is the ultimate goal of addiction treatment, but high rates of relapse have demonstrated that talk therapy alone does not offer enough to accomplish this. Traditional addiction treatment originates primarily from a Minnesota...

Out with orthodoxy: to reach the marginalized, a New York center tried flexible approaches before they were fashionable.
January 1, 2007... Don't tell the 40-person staff at the addiction treatment, outreach, and advocacy organization Exponents that terms such as "incentives" and "harm reduction" represent newfangled or unproven ideas in the treatment community. The New York...

Bringing the legislative process home: NAADAC seeks broad participation in March advocacy activities.(Association for Addiction Professionals)
January 1, 2007... A new Congress that has moved from a Republican majority to Democratic leadership in both houses offers a unique opportunity to shape positively the nation's policies on addiction prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare. More than 50...

Pharmacotherapy: integrating new tools into practice; An introduction from AP's editor to the NAADAC lifelong learning series.(NAADAC LIFELONG LEARNING SERIES)(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... Welcome to the first in a series of six articles designed to provide you with the latest information on the use of medications in alcohol dependence treatment. Medications (pharmacotherapy) used as adjuncts to counseling techniques and...

Alcohol dependence treatment: facilitating the process of change with medications.(NAADAC LIFELONG LEARNING SERIES)
January 1, 2007... Anyone who has treated addictions understands the challenges facing the addicted individual and the treatment provider, due to the sheer number of factors affecting why and how individuals become addicted and manage recovery. Numerous models of...

Change model also works for professionals.(Road to Recovery)(transtheoretical treatment model)
January 1, 2007... The stages of change (transtheoretical) model has proven to be highly successful with substance abuse clients, because it helps us match our interventions to where the client is located on the change continuum. Matching interventions to the...

First, meet ethical obligations.(Clinical Supervision)
January 1, 2007... Clinical supervisors often are responsible for both supervision of a clinical team and many hours worth of administrative tasks. Issues such as time keeping, record keeping, personnel matters, implementation of agency policies and procedures,...

Changing a nightmare's script.(The Dream Zone)
January 1, 2007... The purpose of this issue's column is to provide helpful exercises showing step-by-step techniques for diminishing and even eliminating nightmare content from the dreamer's life. The focus will be on aspects of my work. Dream recall...

Erasing misconceptions about enabling.(The Family Factor)
January 1, 2007... It is time for therapists who work with addicts and their families to reevaluate a concept that has existed in the addiction literature for some time. For far too long we have been careful to ensure that families (including anyone in the...

Continuing education quiz.
January 1, 2007... Earn continuing education credits by taking this quiz on the article that begins on page 32 of this issue. A grade of 70% or above will earn you a certificate of completion for two nationally certified continuing education hours. This is an...

Health system directory.(Addiction Professional Monitor)(Directory)
January 1, 2007... The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems' 2007 NAPHS Membership Directory offers a comprehensive referral resource on the nation's addiction and mental health treatment systems. Each NAPHS member hospital and health system in the...

Offender treatment guide.(Addiction Professional Monitor)
January 1, 2007... The National Institute on Drug Abuse has published a free report outlining proven components for successful treatment of criminal offenders with drug abuse problems. Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations offers 13...

Tobacco Information for youth.(Addiction Professional Monitor)
January 1, 2007... Omnigraphics has published Tobacco Information for Teens, a 400-page guide with basic facts about smoking's health effects and tips to help young people achieve a smoke-free lifestyle. The health effects section addresses a variety of tobacco...

Online training.(Addiction Professional Monitor)
January 1, 2007... Essential Learning provides a Web-based Learning Management System (LMS) and online courses designed to meet the training and compliance needs of addiction and behavioral health treatment organizations, including provider agencies, county...

Employee Action Line.(Addiction Professional Monitor)
January 1, 2007... Brown Consulting, Ltd., offers behavioral health organizations a third-party Employee Action Line. The Employee Action Line supports in-house corporate compliance programs, allowing employees to report violations anonymously without fear of...

Information Management Conference.(Addiction Professional Monitor)
January 1, 2007... The California Institute for Mental Health will host the Seventh Annual California Information Management Conference and Exposition: Addressing the Needs of Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Programs on April 11-12 at the Marriott Manhattan...

Training a well-rounded group of counselors.(Recovery)
January 1, 2007... As a recently recovering person at age 35, Donna Mae DePola was enrolled at a local college in New York on her way to achieving credentialing as a certified addiction counselor. Yet while her recovery from cocaine and heroin addiction made her...