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...
Letter to the Editor: Going to Pot
Manhattan: Parents' outrage over the treatment their marijuana-smoking teenagers received from the New York City Police Department following the kids' arrests at a pro-legalization rally in lower Manhattan on May 6 is at once baffling and worrisome. Baffling because...
Drug Tests’ Easy Lure
To the Editor: Re "Family in Texas challenges Mandatory School Drug Test" (front page, April 17): Many of us who work in drug treatment are concerned the enactment of mandatory drug testing of high school students by the Lockney school board in Texas will not be of...
Straw’s Drug Abuse Lessons
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...
Where clean and sober includes a hairdo
The New York Times By Felicia R. Lee Her eyes didn't match the rather ordinary details conveyed in a cursory glance: a middle-aged woman, small pieces of jewelry, demure sweater set, tentative posture. Her eyes had seen hell. She came on opening day at the...
‘Geriatric’ junkies are a new wrinkle on age-old curse
The New York Post By Rocco Parascandola Not for a second did Charles Crayton – husband, father, deacon, Transit Authority worker – think he'd ever turn to drugs. But when his wife of nearly 40 years, Sandra, developed lung cancer 10 years ago, Crayton, at a...
Odyssey House, Inc. Names New President and Charts Future Course
TCA News It was announced on August 16 that Dr. Peter Provet was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Odyssey House, Inc. Dr. Provet joins the 30-year-old New York City-based non-profit organization as it expands its services within the substance abuse,...
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