Addiction Professional articles from March 2005

Addiction Professional archives from March 2005

Don't hesitate to seek guidance from our experts.(Letter From the Editor)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... One of the most gratifying aspects of working on this magazine from the beginning has been our success in building a team of clinical experts who contribute columns on a regular basis. Each reader should consider these people to be their own...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2005... The January 2005 issue's cover story on medications to treat alcohol dependence mischaracterized the number of federally sponsored clinical trials of anti-alcohol drugs in the early 1990s. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse...

Questioning assumptions on pain and its management.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Regarding the article "Managing Pain with Coexisting Addictive Disorders" in the November 2004 issue, the introductory statement that 117 million Americans (I presume the author means citizens of the United States, with about 290 million...

Clergy article leads to dangerous conclusions.(Letters)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... I had just stopped to relax with your November 2004 issue in hand when I opened to Joseph Amico's article on clergy and sexual boundaries. I really do not have much time to be critical and so I will be brief. In the first paragraph, Amico...

Guidance for treating impaired SA professionals?(Letters)(substance abuse)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Recently I treated my first impaired substance abuse professional. The individual worked both administratively and clinically. Fundamental issues concerning a relapsed substance abuse professional consist primarily of what treatment is...

The three P's: a place, a purpose, and people.(Client Needs)
March 1, 2005... We often have extreme difficulty identifying what our needs are vs. our "wants." When that succulent, butter-drenched piece of crab flashes across my TV screen, I most definitely want to sink my teeth into the juicy meat. My children take it a...

Client tracking and technology.(Aftercare)
March 1, 2005... Webster's dictionary defines the word "tracking" as: "The act or process of following the trail of a person or animal." When most people think of tracking in our industry, they likely think of tracking software. Software certainly...

A field that could use some doctor shopping: can addiction be a viable medical subspecialty?(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... Too much stigma, too little cash. That's the general consensus among leaders in the addiction psychiatry arena to explain an unfortunate lack of new recruits into the addiction subspecialty. Witness these comments: * "It is what it is....

Take a crash course in your clients' support groups.
March 1, 2005... A popular textbook on addiction and its treatment (Kinney, 2003: Loosening the Grip, 7th edition) makes the following suggestion to the addictions counselor-to-be: "You are strongly urged to attend a variety of AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)...

Designing effective youth prevention programming.
March 1, 2005... There are countless articles on developing effective youth drug and alcohol prevention programs available to educators and program developers. Most are in agreement on several key issues that, when followed, will lead to developing a curriculum...

Trends in counseling challenge profession, but there are positives.
March 1, 2005... The world is rapidly changing, from technology to terminology. What worked yesterday may not work tomorrow. Counselors in the alcohol and drug abuse field must adapt to this changing environment to survive and thrive in the future. Some of...

From the nursing community: all roads lead to the consortium.
March 1, 2005... In 1987, Randy Bryson, the nurse manager of an adolescent chemical dependency program in Eugene, Ore., became increasingly frustrated with the way the general hospital was stigmatizing chemically dependent patients. "It was as though they...

Changing negative motivation to positive motivation.(Road to Recovery)
March 1, 2005... Both negative and positive motivation can be very helpful to our clients, but developing positive motivation is a prerequisite of quality sobriety. When we are negatively motivated, we move away from something we are averse to. We try as...

Getting started: understanding a birth process.(Group Psychotherapy)
March 1, 2005... Hello, again. Because I am talking to you through the medium of print, I am writing this column for the March issue before you have seen my first column in the January issue. Therefore, I want to remind us that I wish to use this column as a...

Inform treatment by understanding gambling's addictive process.(Gamblina)
March 1, 2005... The psychodynamics of compulsive gambling can be described as a wave that evolves out of affect and moves into action. This "affect/action wave" (Diagram 1) carries the compulsive gambler away from unbearable feelings, and into the action of...

Continuing education quiz.
March 1, 2005... Earn continuing education credits by taking this quiz on the article that begins on page 33 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...

The Dream Zone: a helpful tool in counseling.(Innovation)
March 1, 2005... Traditional addiction work has not normally recognized or at least has not emphasized the use of dreams. Use of dreams in addiction work, with some clients, is extremely helpful. I have been working with clients' dreams for many years and...

Learning from the Kubler-Ross grief model.(Client Change)
March 1, 2005... What's the first thing you think of when you hear the name Elisabeth Kubler-Ross? If you say "death and bereavement," you would be among the vast majority. The Swiss physician/researcher did seminal work on the grief process since her first...

Making the case for food as a substance of abuse.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food: Independent or Addictive Disorders? Mark S. Gold, M.D. (ed.) Haworth Medical Press, Binghamton, N.Y. (800-429-6784), 2004. ISBN: 0-78902-600-7. Paperback, 122...

Preventing Relapse: Taking the Necessary Steps (video).(Other Resources)(Video Recording Review)(Brief Review)
March 1, 2005... Preventing Relapse: Taking the Necessary Steps (video) Hazelden Publishing (800-328-9000), $225 This 21-minute video features recovering young people who discuss how one can confront and overcome the risk of relapse. Viewers are...

Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling (second edition).(Other Resources)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling (second edition) Geri Miller, Ph.D., John Wiley & Sons (201-748-6395), $39.95 This comprehensive volume covers the clinical, theoretical and research work that addiction counseling...

Addicted and Mentally Ill: Stories of Courage, Hope, and Empowerment.(Other Resources)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Addicted and Mentally Ill: Stories of Courage, Hope, and Empowerment Carol Bucciarelli, The Haworth Press (800-429-6784), $16.95 Professionals may want to recommend this book to persons with a dual diagnosis and/or their loved ones,...

The Price of Smoking.(Other Resources)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Price of Smoking Frank A. Sloan, Jan Ostermann, Gabriel Picone, Christopher Conover and Donald H. Taylor, Jr., The MIT Press (800-405-1619), $40 Sometimes the societal costs of certain phenomena are quantified with numbers too...

A brief intervention can enhance motivation.(Of Note)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) indicates that a peer counselor intervention of only 20 minutes can help motivate people with cocaine or heroin abuse problems to reduce their drug use. Published in the January...

Publication sorts out credentialing standards.(Of Note)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Addiction professionals looking to make sense of the varying licensure, certification and credentialing standards among states for treatment facilities and counselors should obtain a copy of a new publication from the Substance Abuse and Mental...

Addiction consulting firm releases steroid intervention.(Of Note)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... St. Paul, Minn.-based Addiction Intervention Resources, a national addiction consulting practice working with organizations and families, has introduced a Steroid Intervention Program designed to help college and high-school level sports teams,...

Film on N.Y. addicts available on DVD.(Of Note)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... "Union Square," a film that chronicles the trials and tribulations of seven homeless heroin addicts living in New York City's Union Square Park, is now available on DVD for $19.98 through online ordering. The film's publicists say that...

Professional training available in stress coping curriculum.(Of Note)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Human service and employee assistance professionals have access to two- or three-day intensive training programs in a group intervention designed to prevent stress-related problems among workers. "Coping with Work and Family Stress: A Workplace...