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National Alcohol Screening Day
Today, April 7, 2011, is National Alcohol Screening Day in the United States. The event encourages people who use alcohol to consider their personal drinking patterns to determine if they have an alcohol use problem. The National Survey on Drug … Continue reading
LifeRing Grows Stronger, One Meeting at a Time …
Here’s a story from John D. about recent happenings at the LifeRing meeting he convenes in Clayton, CA. It’s a story to gladden the heart of all LifeRingers: I am writing to share a heartwarming story. Two months ago, I … Continue reading
Resiliency: The Drive to Thrive
Book Review: Bonnie Benard: Resiliency, What We Have Learned. I came across this book while staffing a LifeRing table at a conference of teachers and other educators devoted to prevention and treatment of tobacco, alcohol and other drug use among … Continue reading
Washington Post Article Challenges AA Approach
A recent article in the Washington Post will be of interest to many here. It takes AA to task for being ineffective and sees no real purpose for the entire Rehab industry. The author does accept the ‘illness’ concept and … Continue reading
Another First Amendment Case: Hazle v. Crofoot (2010)
For a news summary of this case, see e.g. the Sacramento Bee article or google “Hazel v. Crofoot” Full opinion below: ————————————————————————————– Hazle v. Crofoot, No. 2:08-cv-02295-GEB-KJM (E.D.Cal. 04/06/2010) [1] IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT … Continue reading
A Two-Day Workshop on Solution Focused Interviewing – A Report for LifeRing Convenors
On the Thursday and Friday leading up to the 2005 LifeRing Congress in Guelph, Dr. Ronald Warner of the University of Toronto led a workshop entitled “Solution Focused Interviewing: Basic Skills.” I was one of the more than two dozen … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, convenors, Guelph, philosophy, Solution Focused Therapy, Treatment
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TO ALL CONCERNED WITH THE DRUG-CRIME EPIDEMIC
By James R. Milam, Ph.D. November 17, 1995 “In my opinion, interdisciplinary work does not mean the meeting of specialists in different disciplines, but rather the meeting of different disciplines in the same individual–an adventure that our system discourages, when … Continue reading
Alcoholics Synonymous: Heavy drinkers of all stripes may get comparable help from a variety of therapies
By BRUCE BOWER From: JANUARY 25, 1997 SCIENCE NEWS, VOL. 151 62-63 Psychotherapy studies rarely generate as much anticipation as Project MATCH did. Mental health clinicians and addiction researchers anxiously awaited the results of this 8-year, $27-million investigation that asked … Continue reading
ALCOHOLISM: SOCIAL AS WELL AS PSYCHO-MEDICAL PROBLEM– THE MISSING “BIG PICTURE”
By Arthur G. Nikelly McKinley Health Center University of Illinois at Urbana JOURNAL OF ALCOHOL & DRUG EDUCATION Spring 1994, pp. 1-12 ABSTRACT Precapitalist societies did not experience severe problems with alcoholism as they exist today. The broad parameters associated … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, alcoholism, Disease, economics, history, industry, politics, public health, society, Treatment
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The Alcoholism Revolution
By James R. Milam, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist From: Professional Counselor, August 1992. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true…so that every … Continue reading
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Tagged alcoholism, Disease, Milam, Neurobiology, Treatment
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