The New York Times By Clyde Haberman Darryl Strawberry, the recovering drug user, cancer survivor and sometime baseball player, was back in the news this week for all the usual reasons. He was in trouble with the law. Mr. Strawberry’s troubles came to the attention of a woman in Harlem…
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly By Peter Provet, Ph.D. A fundamental question has recently resurfaced within the field of addiction: Can alcoholics learn to drink moderately? Audrey Kishline, founder of a group called Moderation Management and one of the earliest and strongest proponents of moderate drinking, recently pledged guilty to…
The Daily News By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Once again, fear and tragedy strike at New Yorkers. An innocent woman, Tiffany Goldberg, is hit in the head with a slab of concrete, repeating the nightmare that happened to Nicole Barrett late last year. In the Barrett case, a…
The New York Times By Katherine E. Finkelstein The ambitious plan that New York State’s chief judge announced Thursday – in which most nonviolent criminals who are addicts will be offered drug treatment instead of jail – would be extraordinarily complicated to set up, some prosecutors said yesterday, even…
Mental Health Weekly The New York State Office of Mental Health has awarded a $4.7 million grant to Odyssey House, a 33-year-old therapeutic community, to construct a new 46-bed supervised community residence in New York City for adults with co-occurring mental and addictive disorders. The grant will allow Odyssey House…
The Daily News By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Major League Baseball has finally held Darryl Strawberry accountable for his cocaine abuse. While many applaud this decision, it is important to examine his drug abuse in the broader context of chronic addictions across all sectors of society. The vast majority of New…