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CHICAGO (AP) — It has been six decades since doctors concluded that addiction was a disease that could be treated, but today the condition still dwells on the fringes of the medical community. Only 1...
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By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: April 26, 2013 The mandatory-sentencing craze that drove up the prison population tenfold, pushing state corrections costs to bankrupting levels, was rooted in New...
View ArticleFor Too Long Have We Lived in Silence
I received a telephone call the other day, from a local gentleman who; had first spoken to our receptionist and asked her; “if the inmates can come out and work in the community?” I immediately took...
View ArticleSurvey Finds People in Recovery Experience Striking Improvements Over Time
By Celia Vimont | May 21, 2013 | Leave a comment | Filed in Recovery The first nationwide survey of people in recovery from addiction to alcohol and drugs finds their lives steadily improve in areas...
View ArticleAnti-drug messages miss mark with the young
May 21, 2013 by Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief Former Boston Celtic and Boston College basketball star Chris Herren kicked off the 2013 National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP)...
View ArticleMany Arrested Men Use Illegal Drugs But Don’t Receive Treatment
By Join Together Staff | May 28, 2013 | A study of men arrested in five major U.S. cities finds more than 60 percent use illegal drugs, but most do not receive treatment. The report found positive drug...
View ArticleNational Council Hosts Congressional Briefing on Addictions
On Wednesday, May 29th, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (National Council), in collaboration with our member agencies, Haymarket Center, Phoenix House, and WestCare Foundation,...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of the Betty Ford-Hazelden ‘Alliance’
Anna David Posted: 06/14/2013 11:57 am Drugs, 12-Step, Betty Ford Center, Aa, Abstinence-Based Treatment, Addiction and Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Betty Ford Hazelden, Betty Ford Hazelden...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: As Prisons Squeeze Budgets, GOP Rethinks Crime Focus
By NEIL KING JR. GAINESVILLE, Ga.—Weeks after his election as Georgia governor in 2010, Nathan Deal was pulled aside by a conservative state lawmaker with urgent business to discuss. Rep. Jay Neal, a...
View ArticleLong-Term Cannabis Use May Blunt the Brain’s Motivation System
July 1, 2013 Researchers found that dopamine levels in a part of the brain called the striatum were lower in people who smoke more cannabis and those who began taking the drug at a younger age. They...
View ArticleFearing For Your Fearless (Addicted) Child
By Holly Brown, LMFT Last week, before learning of Corey Monteith’s addiction-related death, I happened to write a post about attachment and substance abuse. I wrote that one of my greatest fears is...
View ArticleTurning Addiction Into a Sideshow
By KRISTEN JOHNSTON Published: July 19, 2013 “Kristen Johnston admits to being a total drug addict and alcoholic for years!” Lee Clower for The New York Times Kristen Johnston After 20 years of...
View ArticleWhen Relapse Turns Deadly: What You Need to Know About Drug Overdose
David Sack, M.D. Psychiatrist and CEO of Elements Behavioral Health Posted 07/22/2013 6:33 pm Friends and fans are reeling in the wake of Glee actor Cory Monteith’s overdose on a mixture of heroin and...
View ArticleTorn between two causes?
By Linda Rosenberg, President & CEO, National Council for Behavioral Health Share and comment on this article on Linda’s Corner Office blog. When I was pregnant with my now adult twin sons, I had a...
View ArticleEvolution or revolution?
July 30, 2013 by David Mee-Lee, MD Consider the following data: When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is fully enacted in 2014, there will be potentially 30 million people now uninsured who could access...
View ArticleProblems With Long-Term Opioid Use: How We Got Here
In the first of a two-part series, Join Together speaks with Barry Meier, New York Times reporter and author of the new e-book, “A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake,” about the...
View ArticleAddiction: America’s Most Neglected Disease
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD Medical director, New York State Office of Mental Health Posted: 06/26/2012 1:09 pm The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA Columbia)...
View ArticleAlternatives to Long-Term Opioid Use for Chronic Pain
By Join Together Staff | September 13, 2013 In the second of a two-part series, Join Together speaks with Barry Meier, New York Times reporter and author of the new e-book, “A World of Hurt: Fixing...
View ArticleNSDUH: Some encouraging numbers on use, but concerns about treatment gap
September 6, 2013 by Gary A. Enos, Editor Numerous drug use rates in the U.S. are slightly dropping or doing no worse than holding steady, but little progress is being made in getting substance use...
View ArticleSAMHSA Working Definition of Recovery
BACKGROUND Recovery has been identified as a primary goal for behavioral health care. In August 2010, leaders in the behavioral health field, consisting of people in recovery from mental health and...
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