A Second Look
City Limits By Phyllis Vine Making art has long been part of healing for addiction and mental illness. At a gallery in East Harlem, it's something more, too: the artists' vision for the future. It was an art opening unlike most in New York. In East Harlem, in the...
Letter to the Editor: Time and Punishment
To the Editor: "Freed From Prison, but Still Paying a Penalty" (news article, Dec. 29) exposes the draconian effects of a criminal justice system whose focus on tough punishment leaves little room for rehabilitation. While punishment for criminal behavior is...
Leading Non-Profit Organization: Odyssey House
Work Life Matters By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Family focused treatment rebuilds communities As one of today's leading providers of substance abuse and mental health treatment, Odyssey House offers a broad range of services focused on helping individuals and...
Surviving and Thriving
New York Newsday By Jeff Pearlman Three young women who have learned, at last, how to be good – make that great –mothers The moment Mabel McCormick hit rock bottom occurred exactly 27 months ago, on a frigid February evening when nothing –absolutely, positively...
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...
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