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Arthur C Bohart and Karen Tallman offer a wonderfully integrative and constructive view of the client as the primary agent of change in psychotherapy. The therapist is viewed as a coach, collaborator and teacher who frees up the client’s innate tendency to heal. Essential reading for workers in the field [Amazon, UK]
Marijuana advocates who say pot is safer than alcohol want colleges to wade into a hazy debate over whether schools’ tough pot penalties are actually worsening their drinking woes [Washington Post, USA]
This second part of COHA Research Fellow Rachel Godfrey Wood’s essay on drug legalization deals with the possible ways in which drugs could be decriminalized, and how the Government could do this while exercising greater control over the industry [COHA, USA]
This second part of COHA Research Fellow Rachel Godfrey Wood’s essay on drug legalization deals with the possible ways in which drugs could be decriminalized, and how the Government could do this while exercising greater control over the industry [COHA, USA]
This first part will ask what the implications of legalization of drug use would be for Colombia, with a particular focus on domestic consumption [Council on Hemispheric Affairs, USA]
In the early 1990s, it was safe to say that Dr. Ting-Kai Li was in possession of the largest and most famous collection of alcoholic rats in the world [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Buried on page 795 of President Obama’s budget, released last Thursday, is a paragraph banning the federal funding of needle-exchange programs for drug addicts — an apparent about-face on his campaign promise to overturn that longstanding ban [Time, USA]
Dr. Harris B. Stratyner, Ph.D., CASAC is the Regional Vice President for Caron’s New York Recovery Center. A renowned addiction and mental health treatment specialist with more than 27 years of experience, he oversees the clinical staff and develops and implements workshops/ programs for patients in recovery [The Afflicted & Affected, USA]
Simon is firing on all cylinders throughout the interview, but I found this statement on the politics of the drug war particularly poignant [Alternet, USA]
From crime beat reporter for the BALTIMORE SUN to award-winning screenwriter of HBO’s critically-acclaimed The Wire, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism today [Bill Moyers Journal, USA]
For the first time, preliminary research using brain-imaging technology has shown that low-key and attention-grabbing anti-smoking public service announcements stimulate different patterns of activity in smokers’ brains and that smokers are more likely to remember seeing the low-key PSAs [NIDA, USA]
When it comes to addressing America’s disastrous war on drugs, the Obama administration appears to be moving in the right direction — albeit very, very cautiously [The Huffington Post, USA]
The Obama administration’s new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting “a war on drugs,” a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use [Wall Street Journal, USA]
White House drug czar, Gill Kerlikowske called for an “end to the war on drugs” and said the drug problem in this country should be a public heath issue and not a criminal justice issue [Alternet, USA]
It was the late 1980s, and the “Decade of the Brain,” sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Library of Congress, was still a few years away [Addiction Inbox, USA]
In response to recent concerns raised in the media about administering abused drugs to human subjects who are addicted (VA Researchers Gave Morphine to Addicts in Study, 5/5/09), I invite you to consider the following [Nora Volkow, Director, NIDA, USA]
People in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs face widespread stigma and discrimination, according to a groundbreaking, national survey released today [Join Together, USA]
Scientists see vast clinical potential of newly identified gene targets [NIDA, USA]
Supports individuals who have chosen to abstain, or are considering abstinence from addictive behaviors (substances or activities), by teaching how to change self-defeating thinking, emotions, and actions; and to work towards long-term satisfactions and quality of life. Supported by leading experts in US [SMART Recovery, USA]
A consumer guide that addresses the mental health needs and concerns of women and girls and incorporates the newest advances in prevention and treatment to help promote positive mental health, understanding, positive behaviors, and address fear and stigma {large pdf} [SAMHSA, USA]
