Drugs’ Ugly Legacy: Healing Families Saves Kids
The crackdown on public marijuana smoking that Mayor Giuliani announced Tuesday is only one part of his continuing campaign against drug use and drug trading in the city. New Yorkers should applaud the mayor's relentless efforts. Drug abuse poisons not only the users,...
Letter to the Editor: Uses of Marijuana: Make Distinctions
To the Editor: It is absolutely essential that voters in Alaska and elsewhere make a clear distinction between legalizing marijuana and allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes. Dr. Herbert D. Kleber stated this succinctly in "What Is the Matter...
N.Y. Provider to Start Innovative Teen Treatment Center
New York City-based Odyssey House, a 33 year-old therapeutic community (TC), plans to open an innovative treatment center for adolescents based on a variation of the TC model that will help the most troubled youths who have high service needs. this will include...
A New Breed of Homeless
The Daily News By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Drugs and homelessness are two of society's most intractable problems, but they are not much in the news of late. Neither presidential candidate have offered a coherent plan that addresses these intransigent social issues. And...
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...
Letter to the Editor: Ecstasy and Marijuana
To the Editor: "Distilling the Truth in the Ecstasy Buzz" (news article, Aug. 6): In our rush to protect our youth from the dangerous drug Ecstasy, let's not forget the far more pervasive and destructive drug of choice of millions of school-age children: marijuana....
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...
Plan to Offer Drug Program in Lieu of Jail is Questioned
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...
Grant will Establish NYC Facility for Dually Diagnosed
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...
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