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Substance Abuse Programs for Teens Lacking in U.S.

Few substance abuse programs in the U.S. offer high-quality treatment designed specifically for adolescents, a new study finds.

Of the more than 700 treatment programs the study surveyed, less than one-third had specialized services for teenagers — with some excluding underage patients altogether and others integrating them with adult patients.

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What is Recovery?

An essay on the subject of “What is Recovery” raises, for me, the question of what is Addiction. Since everyone of us has an idea, our own idea, of what Addiction is, we'll also have our own answer to “What is Recovery?”

Since we don’t have agreement in our field on what Addiction is, I doubt that we can come up with an easy agreement on what recovery is. I could just tell you my definition of both but my goal is not for us to have a debate over which we can come to a resolution. My goal is that we all look at ourselves and how we got to this question. It may be, that after examining ourselves, we may choose to change the question we ask.

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August 2008 Vol. 9, No.4

Addiction: Why Are Some of us More Vulnerable than Others?

Although neuroscientists have made major contributions over the past several decades in elucidating the brain mechanisms and underlying neurotransmitter systems involved with addictive drugs, there has been insufficient attention paid to possibl

Substance Abuse Treatment for Offenders

Editors Note: This article was adapted from a series of articles that ran in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (JSAT), in accordance with a partnership agreement between Counselor Magazine and JSAT to bridge the gap between research and c

The Culture of Recovery in America

For the past nine years, the articles in this column of Counselor have sought to educate addiction professionals about the rich history of addiction treatment and recovery in America and to highlight emerging trends that are of historical import
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Columns

Letter from the Editor, August 2008

Dear Readers,

Whether you are for or against it, the topic of medical marijuana usually elicits very strong opinions. This controversial subject has been generating some press lately on a few fronts.

On April 17, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Ma

Implementing a Clinical Supervision System

Over the past 32 years I have trained tens of thousands of clinical supervisors and wanta-be supervisors. As valuable as that training might be, the real test of whether an organization has a quality system for clinical supervision is not at the
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Prevention A Tricky Issue

“Our country is gaining weight. Obesity leads to significant morbidity. Chronic joint pain and hypertension are two of the many possible disease states that can result from an individual’s overweight status. Therefore, we must do everything we ca

Let Me Know If They Crash

When all the management fads, from Management by Objectives (made famous by Drucker over 50 years ago) to the latest ones, have faded from awareness; when the latest “must read” book becomes passé; when the hot new training pa
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Online Counseling Is It Too Remote?

It’s pretty difficult these days to think of much else, besides the high cost of gasoline. It seems only a short time ago gasoline was roughly a dollar a gallon, and now it’s easily four times as much.

For those of us who w

Walking with the Great Spirit

To my way of thinking, one of the greatest gifts of recovery lies in the invitation to form a deep and abiding relationship with a higher power of our own choosing.

As I have shared in previous columns, my own spiritual quest has entailed

NLP -- Reprogramming the Brain

Generally, at some point in the treatment of persons with addiction, there is usually some discussion focused on identifying and examining the root of the addictive disease, or what might have triggered its onset.

For instance, counselors might be i