Bush’s Drug Plan: A Violation of Church-State Divide?
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks Wanda Haskins believes she's fully qualified to head up a successful drug-treatment program. The reason is simple: "Been there, done that," says the former crack addict. Although the Virginia native has no formal...
Today’s More Flexible TC Benefits Diverse Populations
Addiction Professional By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The therapeutic community (TC) model of substance abuse treatment is at an important crossroad in its evolution. Approximately 45 years old, this self-help model was developed to treat single, adult heroin addicts in...
Keep Marijuana Illegal — For Children’s Sake
Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow By Peter Provet, Ph.D. The debate over the legalization of marijuana is of paramount importance to treatment providers, healthcare professionals, educators, criminal-justice officials, families, and the millions of American men, women...
Drug Testing of Adolescents Could Backfire
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Earlier this summer, the United States Supreme Court ruled that broad-based drug testing in public schools is constitutional. When the justices reached this momentous decision, most of the nation's school kids...
Kicking the Habit (Sort of): Is Abstinence a Losing Battle?
The Wall Street Journal By Tara Parker-Pope For many people who smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol, abstinence seems impossible. Now doctors and public-health officials are debating whether it's even always necessary. A number of medical researchers now believe that...
Start Chewing may be Tobacco Option
The New York Sun By Julia Levy Harm Reduction To Be Topic At Health Symposium If all current smokers in America switched from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco products, 80 times fewer people a year could die of tobacco related illnesses within one generation, an...
Jobs Elude Former Addicts
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks (NEW YORK) Throughout the job interview, Georgia Evans waited anxiously for the question to be asked: Have you ever had a drug or alcohol problem? When it wasn't, she didn't volunteer the information. It was a...
Letter to the Editor: Mental Health Models
To the editor: Re "Voiceless, Defenseless and a Source of Cash" (front page, April 30): For too long, the suffering of the mentally ill, some of whom are addicted to drugs, has been someone else's problem. Deinstitutionalization was the right thing to do in the...
Illicit Drug Use Grows Among Elderly
The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks Susie Richardson is not your average recovering addict. She was 50 years old when curiosity got the better of her and she tried crack cocaine. The result was a "devastating" addiction that for 10 years robbed her...
Drug Strategy Must Address Needs of Different Populations
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly By Peter Provet, Ph.D. With some fanfare, President Bush announced his national drug control strategy this week. Propelled by an opportunistic association between drug use and terrorism, President Bush did what many presidents before...
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