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11/20/2015
Conflicting emotions surrounding patient deaths often manifest in uncertainty about whether a counselor should attend services for a patient.
Conflicting emotions surrounding patient deaths often manifest in uncertainty about whether a counselor should attend services for a patient.
Conflicting emotions surrounding...
11/20/2015
Addiction Professional
11/19/2015
Do addiction treatment programs do enough to acknowledge their clinicians' feelings of loss when a patient dies? Alison Knopf looks at a complex topic that affects every treatment professional.
Do addiction treatment programs do enough to acknowledge their clinicians' feelings of loss when a patient dies? Alison Knopf looks at a complex topic that affects every treatment professional.
Do addiction treatment programs...
11/19/2015
Addiction Professional
11/12/2015
Clinicians should routinely ask patients about patterns of troubling thoughts that occupy them.
Clinicians should routinely ask patients about patterns of troubling thoughts that occupy them.
Clinicians should routinely ask...
11/12/2015
Addiction Professional
11/11/2015
"Enabling" behaviors on the part of family members have become as stigmatized as the addictions that they target.
"Enabling" behaviors on the part of family members have become as stigmatized as the addictions that they target.
"Enabling" behaviors on the part...
11/11/2015
Addiction Professional
11/10/2015
The director of addictions services at Menninger sees a growing number of patients wanting to cling to marijuana use even after giving up other substances.
The director of addictions services at Menninger sees a growing number of patients wanting to cling to marijuana use even after giving up other substances.
The director of addictions...
11/10/2015
Addiction Professional
News
11/05/2015
A University of North Carolina research team says that methods that place researchers and professionals in elementary schools uncover a higher prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome than what earlier research has shown.
A University of North Carolina research team says that methods that place researchers and professionals in elementary schools uncover a higher prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome than what earlier research has shown.
A University of North Carolina...
11/05/2015
Addiction Professional
11/02/2015
Eighteen to 34-year-olds struggling with substance abuse should not only be treated firmly and respectfully as adults during treatment, but they should also be given opportunities to make their own choices.
Eighteen to 34-year-olds struggling with substance abuse should not only be treated firmly and respectfully as adults during treatment, but they should also be given opportunities to make their own choices.
Eighteen to 34-year-olds...
11/02/2015
Addiction Professional
Blog
11/02/2015
Exasperated family members and patients deserve accurate answers when they ask, "Why can't they just stop?"
Exasperated family members and patients deserve accurate answers when they ask, "Why can't they just stop?"
Exasperated family members and...
11/02/2015
Addiction Professional
10/10/2015
Anxiety is an addiction in which individuals become addicted to their own helpless, childlike state of worry, according to Dennis Ortman, PhD.
Anxiety is an addiction in which individuals become addicted to their own helpless, childlike state of worry, according to Dennis Ortman, PhD.
Anxiety is an addiction in which...
10/10/2015
Addiction Professional
10/09/2015
The goal of mindfulness is not to achieve a blank mind but to step out of the inner stream of thinking and be fully present in the moment.
The goal of mindfulness is not to achieve a blank mind but to step out of the inner stream of thinking and be fully present in the moment.
The goal of mindfulness is not...
10/09/2015
Addiction Professional

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