Help for Aging Addicts

New York Daily News By Thomas Zambito   At first glance, it could be a gathering of church elders on a Sunday morning. But the seven men and women gathered in the basement of an East Harlem treatment center are among the city’s most incorrigible drug...

A Plight Understood by Elders

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...

Why Addiction Cannot be Moderate

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...

From Lethal Mix, Random Attacks

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...