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Thirty-five years ago, twenty young professionals in the fields of addiction, mental health, and education gathered in Santa Barbara to discuss their work with young and adult children from alcoholic families. From that gathering, the ...
When speaking with substance use disorder (SUD) counselors, the topic of drug testing often elicits mixed reactions. On one hand, counselors may sometimes view it when used by others as punitive (e.g., concluding an employment ...
Dear Dr. Galardi, I’m a forty-two-year old female executive working with a Fortune 500 company. In the last year, with the help of my doctor, I’ve lost 130 pounds. I have about forty pounds left ...
The new push for addiction counselors these days is to be client centered. This means a focus on compassion, collaboration, and especially meeting clients where they are, but what does that really mean? To meet ...
Longtime readers of Counselor will recognize that we are smaller, down from sixty-four pages to forty-eight pages. Let me assure you that this will not diminish the quality of content in our independent publication. While ...
This first article discusses the problem of prescription drug misuse and addiction. It reviews signs and symptoms, reasons for using these drugs, and their effects on drug users and their families. The next article will ...
This is the final installment in a two-column series focusing on embracing the quality of patience in enhancing both the successfulness and overall quality of recovery from alcoholism and/or drug addiction. The initial installment expounded ...
As consumers, we live in a constant state of information overload. Just try to order a product off Amazon and that point becomes very clear; suddenly there are thousands of options at your fingertips, all ...
It is cunning, baffling, and powerful. It is also cheap, accessible, and legal. Yes, alcohol wins the trifecta hands down. Alcohol is a formidable opponent and survivor, and has overcome the attacks of the Temperance ...
As we enter a new year, change is absolutely everywhere you look, from a new White House to fresh crops of marijuana on the west coast . . . and just about everything in between. ...
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