Addiction Professional articles from July 2004

Addiction Professional archives from July 2004

We favor what's research-based--up to a point.(Letter From the Editor)
July 1, 2004... A few times in recent months, a reader has questioned a certain article in the magazine because the program or intervention it describes doesn't have widespread research to back it up. While sometimes the writer of an article simply hasn't...

Readers explore promise of advocacy strategies.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Carol McDaid describes a promising strategy to promote the passage of federal substance abuse parity legislation (May 2004 issue), including enlisting the pharmaceutical industry with its proven record of success in Washington halls of power....

More mail on rapid detox, and response from author.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Clifford Bernstein, M.D., discusses a new method for detoxing opioid-dependent individuals in the March 2004 issue. While the method might help some patients, the article reminds me of one that could have been written in the 1950s, before good...

Field needs more street smarts about these drugs.(Commentary)
July 1, 2004... I was surprised recently when I found out that one form of the SCID (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM) asked whether an individual used "street drugs" and included on the list of drugs to be chosen benzodiazepines (such as Xanax and...

Addiction is a national tragedy--in other nations.(World View)
July 1, 2004... I arrived in Cyprus recently to work on a project to help establish professional credentialing for addiction professionals. The colleague who met me at the airport informed me that our plans had changed. The reason was that a young man had...

Behavioral couples therapy: making a difference for families.
July 1, 2004... Family-based interventions are now commonplace and found in most substance abuse treatment clinics around the world. The influences of family dynamics can be a foundation of support that carries the recovering person "through the storm," or can...

Improving intervention: the advantages of a team approach.
July 1, 2004... "You can't help someone who doesn't want help!" This has been one of the most unchallenged myths across the broad spectrum of helping professions and self-help groups globally. There are professionals, recovering individuals, family members and...

Effective continuing-care planning: an addiction counselor's view.
July 1, 2004... Addiction professionals understand that continuing care is an essential piece of the addiction treatment continuum. Continuing-care plans with varying levels of accountability exist throughout the United States. For the addiction treatment...

Providence summit participants.
July 1, 2004... David R. Anderson Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) Daphne Baille TASC, Inc. Andrea Barthwell, M.D. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Roger Bensinger Bencorp Kathryn...

Field leaders move forward on crafting a public campaign.(changing attitudes and actions about drug and alcohol addiction )
July 1, 2004... Continuing the momentum that's been building in earnest, scores of leaders in the addiction field gathered in Providence, R.I., again this year to refine ideas around a national campaign to change attitudes and actions about drug and alcohol...

A message to the community of addiction professionals from the president and chief executive officer, Odyssey Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... We at Odyssey Pharmaceuticals are pleased and proud to be part of these special editions of Addiction Professional and Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, each of which contains the proceedings of the second Providence Summit, held May 2004. ...

Reflection of feelings: an essential counseling skill; Skill can be particularly difficult for recovering counselors.
July 1, 2004... Successful treatment outcomes are empowering, and when individuals discover they can successfully manage life without drugs, they often experience a sense of exhilaration and gratitude that propels them to explore their options for entry as a...

Is managed care managing the care out of addiction treatment? One CEO's call to action.(The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs)
July 1, 2004... My name is Christopher Crosby and I am successfully recovering from the disease of addiction. My personal recovery journey began in the winter of 1979 while serving abroad in the United States Army. I'm a dedicated Christian, husband,...

Going beyond what's mandated to invest in staff.(Training)(addiction treatment organizations)
July 1, 2004... Organizations that offer addiction treatment services must deal with multiple, overlapping requirements to provide initial and ongoing training to their employees. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), CARF,...

What hostile clients are really saying: (first in a series).(Roadblocks to Recovery)
July 1, 2004... One of the biggest roadblocks to recovery happens when the counselor decides that sinister motives are behind a client's apparent lack of cooperation. There's no such thing as a client whose goal is to be stubborn, disrespectful, dishonest, or...

Continuing education quiz.
July 1, 2004... Earn continuing education credits by taking this quiz on the article that begins on page 18 of this issue. A grade of 70 percent or above will earn you a certificate of completion for two nationally certified continuing education hours. This is...

Clinical Process Control: strategies for successful practice management.(Innovation)
July 1, 2004... For the drug and alcohol residential treatment facility, Clinical Process Control (CPC) is a quality management method that addresses how to manage information to bridge the gap between profitability and lost revenue. This article explains some...

At last--evidence--based information to guide Adolescent Treatment.(book )(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Exemplary Models from a National Evaluation Study Sally J. Stevens, Ph.D., and Andrew R. Morral, Ph.D. (eds.) The Haworth Press, New York City (800-429-6784; www.HaworthPress.com),...

Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Drugs and Alcohol.(Other Resources)(book )(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids About Drugs and Alcohol Claudia Black, Ph.D., Hazelden Publishing (800-328-9000), $12.95 This 144-page softcover volume profiles five families and how the...

Quitting Marijuana: Your Personal Recovery Plan.(Other Resources)(book)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Quitting Marijuana: Your Personal Recovery Plan Cardwell C. Nuckols, Ph.D., Hazelden Publishing (800-328-9000), $4.95 This workbook, which was the first in the Your Personal Recovery Plan series to be revised, includes information on...

Handbook of the Medical Consequences of Alcohol and Drug Abuse.(Other Resources)(book )(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Handbook of the Medical Consequences of Alcohol and Drug Abuse John Brick, Ph.D. (ed.), The Haworth Press (800-429-6784), $49.95 This peer-reviewed book includes contributions from experts in medical physiology, psychopharmacology and...

Seven Tools to Beat Addiction.(Other Resources)(book)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2004... Seven Tools to Beat Addiction Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., Three Rivers Press (212-940-7866), $14 This softcover book with a July 2004 publication date challenges 12-Step program assumptions about the inevitable need for a lifetime...

Random thoughts, from home and abroad.(Letter From the Publisher)(Editorial)
July 1, 2004... The inaugural U.K./European Symposium on Addictive Disorders was held in the shadow of Westminster Abbey in London from April 28-May 1. Exceeding everyone's expectations, the conference drew nearly 400 people, including several dozen...

Award recipient embraces faith and science.(Of Note)(James B. Nelson)(Johnson Institute)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Johnson Institute has established an award designed to honor those who promote the combined power of faith and science in furthering addiction prevention and recovery. The organization, devoted to advancing addiction recovery solutions, in...

N.Y. health system shows awareness of alcohol issues.(Of Note)(New York)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Amid the constant clamor that general health care facilities do a poor job of detecting and addressing substance abuse problems in their patients, Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, N.Y., showed a broad understanding of these problems during...

Program turnover jeopardizes national treatment system.(Of Note)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Using the term "system" to characterize the national infrastructure of addiction treatment would appear to be a misnomer because of instability in treatment programs and their workforces, judging from results of a study published last year in...

L.A.-based talk show expands offerings, wins award.(Of Note)(RecoveryTV)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... "RecoveryTV," a talk show that is broadcast in first run in Los Angeles and distributed nationally via Dish TV and Comcast Cable, has received the opportunity to use self-help expert John Bradshaw's book, tape and film library, and is also...

SAMHSA report outlines costs of treatment.(Of Note)(Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... On the average, it cost $1,433 per course of outpatient alcohol or drug abuse treatment in 2002, according to a report released this spring by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The report also found...

Addiction treatment coalition expands its ranks.(Of Note)(Partnership for Recovery)
July 1, 2004... The Partnership for Recovery, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition whose five original partners have sought to highlight to policy-makers the need for additional addiction treatment resources, announced in April that it has added five new...

Service search.(Directory)
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No longer in public eye, but more out front with himself.(Recovery)(Michael Barry TV personality)
July 1, 2004... To the viewing public, Michael Barry was the polished, put-together anchorman. Like many upwardly mobile TV personalities, his location changed often: St. Louis, Nashville, New York, L.A. He even scored a role on a network soap opera for a...

Helping kids overcome crisis.(special report)
July 1, 2004... Even under the best circumstances, growing up is hard. Peer pressure, bullies, academic struggles, dealing with parents--these have always been issues kids have had to face. But for some children, such as those who struggle with mental or...

Introduction.(special report)(adolescent psychology)
July 1, 2004... Why are we talking about behavioral misadventures? Today more young persons to the age of 35 die of behavioral misadventures than of all diseases combined. This simple statement is supported over and over again by epidemiological data from the...

Cigarette smoking.(special report)
July 1, 2004... Research shows that nicotine is more reinforcing during early adolescence than at later ages. There is a lot of data to support the theory that kids' brains are predisposed to be vulnerable to certain kinds of chemicals. The adolescent brain is...

Risk-taking and thrill-seeking.(special report)
July 1, 2004... In many ways, adolescence is the healthiest and most resilient period of the lifespan. Almost everything you can measure improves between childhood and adolescence--strength, speed, reaction time, reasoning abilities, immune function, increased...

Suicide attempts.(special report)
July 1, 2004... Suicide attempts are a primary reason for child psychiatric emergencies and child psychiatric hospitalizations. The great majority of suicide attempts and completed suicides, about 85 to 95 percent, occur in the context of diagnosable...

Alcohol and harmful drinking.(special report)
July 1, 2004... At the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, we do a lot of treatment outcome and intervention research. We know that there are probably 3,000 to 4,000 treatment outcome studies, and probably as many as 100 of those are...

Peer abuse: consequences of bullying.(special report)
July 1, 2004... Bullying has three defining characteristics: 1) It's aggressive behavior. It's not accidental. It's intentional. It's intended to cause harm or distress; 2) It doesn't occur once or twice but there's a pattern of behavior that's repeated over...

Parental involvement.(special report)
July 1, 2004... I used to do a lot of parent discussion groups, and inevitably what middle school parents or high school parents really wanted me to give them was the magic bullet that would protect their kids from sex and drugs. So I would say to them,...

Recommended reading.(special report)(Bibliography)
July 1, 2004... From Dahl (1) Tanner, JM: Foetus into Man, Second Edition, Castlemead Publications; 1989. (2) Herman-Giddens ME, Slora EJ, Wasserman RC, et al.: Secondary sexual characteristics and menses in young girls seen in office practice: a...