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Original blog date: May 5, 2017 Efforts by professionals to “treat” alcoholism and other addictions have a long and colorful history. Alcoholics have been forced to drink their own urine and forced to drink wine...
Original Blog Date: September 1, 2017 High degrees of variability in the pathways and styles of addiction recovery obscure shared mechanisms of change across such healing processes. The alcohol and drug problems arena is filled...
Original post date: July 24, 2015 Over the past two centuries, addiction recovery has been understood as primarily an intrapersonal process, though recent decades have witnessed growing interest in the related concepts of family recovery and community recovery....
Original Blog Date: March 14, 2014 The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) recently released Standards of Care: For the Addiction Specialist Physician. The Standards outline the responsibilities of addiction medicine specialists in the areas of assessment and...
Original blog date: May 22, 2015 “We can be convinced logically of the need for intervention and change. But it is the story of one individual that ultimately makes the difference—by offering living proof.” ― John...
Original post date: September 28, 2013 The threats to health that occur during active addiction have been widely communicated in the popular media and in the scientific literature, but the health profile of people in...
NOTE: This is the update link as of April 15, 2019: https://redcap.vcu.edu/surveys/?s=MJNA4FLD9X Introduction. National surveys have given us with valuable information about rates of alcohol and other drug use, abuse and dependence. Much of what we...
Original Blog Date: June 3, 2016 The addiction recovery experience has been sliced and diced in all manner of categories: secular, spiritual, and religious; natural recovery, peer-assisted, and treatment-assisted; and abstinence-based, moderation-based, and medication-assisted, to...
National Recovery Month Planning Partners CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Due Friday, April 26, 2019 Ramstad/Kennedy Annual Award FOR Outstanding Leadership BY a Single State Authority The first annual Ramstad/Kennedy Award was presented in 2008 during a...
Original Blog Date: July 13, 2016 CALLING ATTENTION TO OPIOID-AFFECTED FAMILIES AND CHILDREN (WILLIAM WHITE AND DR. DENNIS C. DALEY) Fresh proposals to respond to rising opioid use/addiction/deaths arrive daily, but are striking in their...