Category: Drug Addiction

For Hoarders and Addicts, Drama is Trauma Not Therapy

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Good drama relies on conflict and confrontation but that is not true of good therapy. In fact, if you are trying to change human behavior, kindness, empathy and support are far more effective than tough love and quick fixes. Unfortunately, this means that the “psychotherapies” that get spotlighted on reality TV shows that aim …

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Addiction Website Releases New Guide to Help Families through Intervention

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Addiction website releases Intervention Guide, a free publication that provides families with tips, advice, and guidelines for helping a loved one into drug and alcohol treatment.

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‘Recovery Happens’ in Calaveras

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This time last year, life wasn’t so sweet for Robert Barlow of West Point. Barlow was an average single dad with a 10-year-old son, except for a $250-a-month methamphetamine habit and an impending prison sentence.

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School-based intervention successfully lowers drinking rates in at-risk children

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( Elsevier ) In an effort to combat these startling findings, researchers at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry describe a successful personality-based intervention for substance abuse delivered by teachers in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Drugs In Sport: Support Available, Australian Psychological Society

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The Australian Psychological Society (APS) will offer psychological assistance to sportspeople and sporting organisations to deal with drugs in sport as part of a new government initiative. As part of the Australian Government’s $20…

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