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The Opposite Of Addiction Is Not Sobriety – It Is Human Connection by Johann Hari
“It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned, and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been…
Ask an Expert: As a Therapist, How Can I Challenge My Patient’s 12-Step Beliefs?
Can therapy work when the therapist has a visceral reaction to the client’s closely-held 12-step ideology? Our panel of experts weighs in. https://www.thefix.com/content/ask-expert-how-can-i-challenge-my-patients-12-step-beliefs
Rethinking Alcohol: Can Heavy Drinkers Learn To Cut Back?
Please click here if you would like to read the article Rethinking Alcohol: Can Heavy Drinkers Learn To Cut Back? by Allison Aubrey.
A Harm Reduction Treatment Model – Part 2
By Patt Denning, PhD Based on the principles outlined in Part 1 and on empirically validated approaches, harm reduction psychotherapy (HRP) uses multiple interventions, depending…
Check out this article in April’s Atlantic magazine
Check out this article in April’s Atlantic magazine – it questions the wisdom of our culture’s reliance on Alcoholics Anonymous and proposes alternatives: The Irrationality…
The Third Wave
It’s harm reduction – the third major model for understanding and treating substance misuse, following the Moral and the Disease models of addiction. In short…