Recently added articles from Addiction Professional:
Caught in the middle on marijuana: concerned about effects on treatment, many addiction professionals avoid the heated marijuana policy debate.
Sep 01, 2009; ... While alcohol stands as the most prevalent substance addressed in addiction treatment programs and methamphetamine might have the most vexing effects to combat, marijuana undoubtedly remains the substance most likely to elicit strong emotions in the professional community. ...
Improving alumni relations: an active alumni program can reinforce recovery principles and boost a treatment center's marketing.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Many addiction treatment programs offer clients a continuum of care: diagnostic assessment, primary treatment, extended care, outpatient services and/or referrals. Other programs are designed to provide only one of these services along the continuum. In any case, we must ask an important ...
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Sep 01, 2009 ... Blogs Read postings from Lynn Sucher, president of Treatment Consultants and a former clinical director and administrator of addiction treatment facilities. Sucher recently has blogged on meaning-centered therapy and on how clinicians must address their own personal issues as ...
An application of integrative medicine: nutritional and other therapies can assist with co-occurring substance use and eating disorders.
Sep 01, 2009; ... Eating disorders (EDs) such as bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa involve many features similar to those present in substance use disorders (SUDs). Both involve a preoccupation with a substance and with the behaviors accompanying the addiction. Both involve some impulse control issues ...
Improving the response to FASD: addiction professionals can assist in drinking prevention and in services to alcohol-exposed individuals.(Feature)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The adage "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is ancient and wise. But even its implied 16-to-l savings undervalues prevention in cases that are 100% preventable and for which there is no cure. This is the type of case that concerns fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) ...