03.24.2015

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.

03.20.2015

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…

03.19.2015

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…

02.10.2015

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…

02.10.2015

The Real Cause of Addiction

  Addiction is not caused by drugs, nor by diseased people. The antecedents are far more complicated and the solution is human connection and fulfilling…

02.06.2015

Dying To Be Free: There’s A Treatment For Heroin Addiction That Actually Works. Why Aren’t We Using It?

“It continues to amaze and anger me that the treatment (and the criminal justice-based treatment) systems operate outside of any oversight when it comes to…