Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Catch me on Audrey's Show

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Last August I had the privilege of being a guest on the Audrey Chapman show; see my blog post about it .  Today I had the honor of being inv...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Ireland Leads the Way

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A number of people have told me that my new book, Empowering Your Sober Self , would make a good classroom text in addiction recovery, but n...
Friday, April 02, 2010

New criteria for addiction

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The DSM -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual -- defines the disorders that the psychiatric profession officially recognizes.  Where a patien...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Treatment Journal Reviews Empowering Your Sober Self

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The current issue of  Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly  contains a review of my book  Empowering Your Sober Self.    The reviewer, who is non...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Private Outpatient for Opiates, Done Right

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Prescription drug abuse, especially by young people, is on the rise, and opiates like Vicodin and Oxycontin rank high on the list.  People w...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Goodbye Genetics, Hello Epigenetics

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For the first time in history, science now has tools that can definitively answer long-standing questions about the role of genetics as the ...
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Cover story

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The cover of my new book -- Empowering Your Sober Self -- is going to appear as a prop in the forthcoming made-for-TV movie "Sins of t...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

What If There Were LifeRing Treatment?

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[I'm cross-posting this item both here and in my LifeRing Convenor blog . Lately I've been posting a lot more to the convenor blog t...
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Saturday, August 08, 2009

On the Air with Audrey Chapman

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It was my great pleasure this morning to appear via telephone on the Audrey Chapman show, broadcast in the Washington DC area on WHUR-FM at ...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery

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Jacqueline Foreman (right) interviews me on Your Mental Health Talk Radio about my new book, here: Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Treatment promo research results

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From the treatmentgap.org website: Most Americans know someone personally who is addicted to alcohol or drugs and they are worried about acc...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

They laughed at him

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A little while ago, a gentleman -- let's call him "Guy" -- phoned to say that he had just read my book and wanted to start a L...
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A Reader Writes With More Reading

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One of the readers of this blog was kind enough to email me with the following information, which I pass on as received: mr. nicolaus, i...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Choice Theory Conference

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It was my privilege yesterday to attend the Choice Theory Education Conference at the Hilton in Sacramento. I staffed a LifeRing literature...
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LifeRing in New Living (NY)

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An excerpt adapted from Chapter 2 of my new book ( Empowering Your Sober Self ) appears in the April issue of New Living , a free 20-p healt...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Class war in California counseling

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In California you need a license to fix cars, cut hair, paint fingernails, give massages, and much else. But not to provide addiction treat...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Don't drink that marshmallow

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The marshamallow experiments are famous by now, thanks in large part to  Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence books, and their releva...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

No Such Thing as a Bad Person Addicted to Alcohol

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Had the pleasure today to hear and meet Charles D. Appelstein, author o f No Such Thing as a Bad Kid and other works expounding the strengt...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

First call

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Had the first telephone call today from an arms-length reader of Empowering Your Sober Self , my new book.  A counselor in San Diego called ...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Seattle police chief tapped as 'Drug Czar'

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Rumors last month that Rep. Jim Ramstad was headed for the post of 'Drug Czar' proved unfounded, as Pres. Obama has reportedly nomin...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Well said, in Washington

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The Bush years, by wide consensus, were a dismal era for science.  But by a strange paradox, some bright stars emerged in what is normally a...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Congratulations to Barack Obama

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As a college student at Wesleyan in '61 (or was it '62?) I joined with other white students to team with groups of black students fr...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008

End Stage

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Is nothing sacred? Michael Shermer, Scientific American 's Skeptic columnist, reports in the November issue that one of the icons of ps...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Genetics of mental illnesses: More is Less

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Genetic research into psychiatic disorders appears to be undergoing a systemic deflation not unlike that in the financial markets. As I pos...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Genetics: The more we see, the less there is

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In the concluding chapter of my forthcoming book ( link ), I look at the evidence for an alcoholism gene.  My research showed that the more ...
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Spirituality strikes out

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Two controlled trials of the effect of spirituality on addiction recovery showed no improvement for the patients given spiritual guidance as...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Invitation to Guest Authors

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Guest authors are invited to contribute to this blog. I have to take another break until the end of June. I'm working on a book with a...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Confrontation Therapy, R.I.P.

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Two of my favorite scholars have combined to write a powerhouse of an article that everyone interested in addiction treatment will want to r...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Abstinence leads to rapid brain repair

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Abstinence leads to rapid repair of gross brain damage seen in alcohol dependent persons, according to a review of neuroimaging studies by a...
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Brazil study: Does AA really work?

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"Do Alcoholics Anonymous groups really work? Factors of adherence in a Brazilian sample of hospitalized alcohol dependents." -- Th...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

2007 Darwin Award Nominee: Alcohol Division

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Michael was an alcoholic. And not an ordinary alcoholic, but an alcoholic who liked to take his liquor... well, rectally. His wife said he w...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Humility R Us [NOT]

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It's been six years since AA Trustee Dr. George Vaillant's article in the AA Grapevine, saying that "It doesn't hurt at the...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Alcohol Killed 'The Prophet'

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The excellent New Yorker continues its literary war on the alcohol-as-muse delusion. In the Jan. 7 issue is a thumbnail bio of Kahlil Gib...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Bankrupt Tobacco Firm Floats Whiskey-Flavored Cigs

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Whiskey-flavored cigarettes and cigarette papers dosed with vanilla to disguise the stink of the smoke are among the "new technology...
Friday, December 21, 2007

If liquor doesn't get you, nicotine will

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Last week's New Yorker had a bio of Malcolm Lowry, a lauded writer whose alcoholism claimed him at age 47; see my blog note, " Alc...

Let them drink Grand Marnier!

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A proposal out of Tacoma to "treat" chronic street alcoholics by banning the sale of cheap wine caught the fancy of S.F. Chronicle...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Back from Iraq with a monkey on their back

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Jon Marshall's News Gems website writes: "ABC News' investigative team, led by Brian Ross, worked with six graduate journalis...

Afghan farmers see through "drug war"

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Recent U.S. initiatives to eradicate poppy fields in selected areas of Afghanistan, on the Colombian model, have met with growing resistance...

Girl, 8, asks cops for help with drunken mom

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"Help me. My mother is drunk, and she crashed her car," said an 8-year old Tampa FL girl to troopers last week who were checking o...

Sponsors rat on pigeon

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Two Alcoholics Anonymous sponsors took the witness stand in federal court in Des Moines IA recently to denounce their former sponsee, Thomas...
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War of the drugged

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From the Guardian (U.K.): The army today admitted that cocaine was becoming the "drug of choice" for British service personnel. Co...

Whine tasting

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It had to come to this. The California Republican Party issued two press releases attacking the California Democratic Party for spending cam...

Dual diagnoses have same root?

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Substance abuse and mental illness very commonly go together. One hypothesis to explain the correlation is to see the patient using alcohol...
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