Addiction Professional articles from November 2008

Addiction Professional archives from November 2008

Can't stop the fight for equity.(Editorial)
November 1, 2008... The Friday afternoon when Congress and President Bush successfully concluded 12 years of toil in the behavioral health field over insurance fairness provided stirring theater for those of us who have chronicled parity's ups and downs. By early...

Clarification.
November 1, 2008... The Prince William County, Virginia project described in the article "Technology transfer on Main Street" in the September/October 2008 issue was funded in part by cooperative agreement 5UD1T1013415 from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment...

Disputing association between marijuana and death.(Letter)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2008... The July/August 2008 issue carried an article in which author Aaron Norton wrote in reference to marijuana that "the potential accumulated risks can be very severe, up to and including death." Since the statement is not qualified in any way, I...

How we got there, where we go next: the new law's success will rest on educating the public about treatment.(Parity)
November 1, 2008... By late September, addiction treatment advocates were more than a little anxious. Eighteen months of historic progress on a congressional bill to end insurance discrimination against mental health and addiction were in danger of going for...

Does the counselor's gender matter? a clinician of the same sex doesn't always produce optimal results.(Report)
November 1, 2008... In the halls of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), there is general agreement that men should sponsor men and women should sponsor women. In fact, many (heterosexual) newcomers are discouraged from socializing with members of the opposite sex entirely,...

A catalyst for collaboration: an institute on a college campus unites groups around treatment and recovery.
November 1, 2008... The types of system enhancements that can engage the recovery community and generate real progress in treatment and prevention outcomes require buy-in from many interests, from government to business to the provider and advocacy communities....

Progress for the counseling profession: an association works toward curriculum standards for addiction education.
November 1, 2008... This article is intended to serve as a follow-up to the special report on higher education programs that appeared in the May/June 2008 edition. We in the addictions higher education network are grateful that NAADAC, The Association for...

Comprehensive care for the African-American client: treatment programs must lift historical barriers to client engagement.
November 1, 2008... Alcohol and other drug addiction have had a major impact on African-Americans, destroying far too many black families and communities. The short-term relief one achieves from the use of alcohol and other drugs seduces many African-Americans who...

DBT fits well in addiction treatment.(Road to Recovery)(dialectical behavior therapy)(Report)
November 1, 2008... We'll order now what they ordered then, 'Cause everything old is new again "Everything Old Is New Again," Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager "DBT" is a relatively new construct being used as the wrapping for some time-tested...

Mellody House.(Environments for Recovery)
November 1, 2008... When administrators of The Meadows treatment organization north of Phoenix planned to establish an on-campus extended-care facility specializing in trauma resolution, they kept in mind an alternative plan for use of the site: They would plan to...

Strengthening recovery through relationships.(Recovery)(Report)
November 1, 2008... Bev Haberle never forgot how much her own recovery had been enhanced through what she learned from peers, so working for a Pennsylvania organization overseeing three peer-run recovery support organizations always felt natural. But it took an...