Index to Articles

1 (1)

• 12-Step Programs for Families

A (17)

• “…and practice these principles in all my affairs.”
• A Better Diagnostic Understanding of Addiction
• A Big(ger) Picture: Juvenile Crime
• A Place for Placebo?
• A Sad Story That’s Sadly Common
• A Simple Plan: Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders
• A Simple Test
• Acing the Continued Stay Review
• Addiction Treatment: The Double Standard
• Addiction, Abuse, Dependency–What’s the Difference?
• Addictive Disease: Why Semantics Matter — and Why They Don’t
• Affordable
• Agenda vs. Agenda
• Alcoholic Defenses
• Antabuse Redux
• Atheology for Recovery
• Avoiding the Money Relapse Trap

B (9)

• Balancing Act
• Believing in the Disease
• Beyond the Jargon
• Big Room, Many Doors
• Brain Chemistry and Addiction
• Build Client Decision-Making Skills With Football
• Building Blocks of Motivation
• Building Content on Your Rehab Blog
• Building Your Recovery Routine

C (34)

• Calm as a Tool for Better Living
• Cannabis in Relapse
• Cannabis: The Addiction Question
• Case Study: Medical Pot
• Choosing Your Rehab: 4 Success Factors
• Clarity
• Collegiate Recovery Program Study: Recovering Students Face Multiple Addictions
• Comparing Out vs. Comparing In
• Complex Case: The Devil We Know
• Complex Trauma: A Practical Approach
• Compulsion
• Conflict in the Treatment Workplace
• Confrontation
• Confrontation Without Conflict
• Consistency
• Contracting
• Contrast
• Coordinates on the Recovery Map
• Cost Control Challenges
• Counseling Skills Toolkit
• Countering Denial
• Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 2
• Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 3
• Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 5
• Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 6
• Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 7
• Creating a Culture of Customer Satisfaction, Part 8
• Creating Leverage for Intervention
• Credibility
• Crime- the Lifestyle
• Crisis Management Cheat Sheet
• Critical Thinking
• Cultivating Calm
• Customer Service Secrets of the Stars

D (19)

• Defense: Externalization
• Defense: Denial
• Defense: Fantasy
• Defense: Intellectualizing
• Defense: Minimizing
• Defense: Rationalization
• Desire for Drugs
• Deterring Drunk Driving: Do Sanctions Work?
• Deterring Drunk Driving: The Role of Treatment
• Deterring Drunk Driving: Who’s Likely to Reoffend?
• Deterring Drunk Driving: Thoughts on Designing a System
• Diagnosis: Towards Validity and Consistency
• Different Levels of Treatment: Who Gets What
• Do I Have a Drinking Problem?
• Do You Know What (Drugs) Your Kids Are Doing?
• Don’t Forget Denial
• Drug Seeking in the ER
• DSM-5 versus DSM-IV
• Dual Dilemma: The Problem of Co-Occurring Disorders

E (9)

• Early Recovery: Twelve Pitfalls
• Effective Communication with an Addicted or Alcoholic Person
• Effective Group Design: Assumptions
• Effective Group Design: Shared Understanding pt. 1
• Effective Group Design: Shared Understanding pt. 2
• Eight Ways to Drive Yourself Nuts
• Establishing Credibility
• Evolution of a Disease Concept
• Examining Goals and Assumptions

F (7)

• Families: Getting More From 12-Step Support
• Families: On Being a Newcomer in a 12-Step Group
• Families: Why Alanon?
• Finding a Skeptical Starting Point
• Five Natural Stress-Busters for Recovery
• Five Things NOT to Say to Someone With Addiction
• Four Ways to Refresh Your Website

G (8)

• Gaining Compliance
• Getting a Good Night’s Sleep in Early Recovery
• Good and Bad Advice at 12 Step Meetings
• Good Practice Over Bad Habit
• Gratitude: From Platitude to Attitude
• Groups That Don’t Work pt 1
• Groups That Don’t Work pt 2
• Groups That Work: Climate

H (14)

• Hackmail! Protect Your Patient Data
• HALT-ing Relapse Before it Starts
• Happy Customers
• Hedging His Bet
• Hidden Agendas
• Hidden Withdrawal
• Hiring for Success
• Hitting Bottom
• Holidays Step by Step
• How AA Works
• How Alcoholics Change: A Different Paradigm
• How Come Outcomes?
• How Easy am I to Manipulate?
• Humility Ain’t for Wimps

I (9)

• I’m Ready to Call a Family Interventionist
• Insomnia: The Medication Dilemma
• Intervener Basics
• Intervention
• Intervention: Dealing With the “What ifs”
• Introducing Newcomers to 12-Step Fellowship
• Introduction to Intervention: You Can Do It
• Intrusive Thoughts
• Is Your Loved One With Alcoholism Already Considering Change?

L (2)

• Leaving Rehab: Seven Tips
• Lifestyle Balance Model for Recovery

M (11)

• Making Good Decisions
• Mandated vs. Voluntary Treatment
• Medical Manipulation
• Memory by Function
• Mindfulness
• Models of Addiction: The Medical Model
• Models of Addiction: The Moderation Model
• Models of Addiction: The Psychoanalytic Model
• Models of Addiction: The Temperance Model
• Models of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
• Motivation vs. Unmotivation

N (4)

• New Life, New You, New Job
• No Warm Reception
• Nonbelievers Moral Inventory
• Not-So-Early Recovery

O (5)

• On Its Way (or Already Here): Hash Oil
• Online: The Power of 24/7 Fellowship
• Opening the Pipeline: ADHD
• Outcome vs. Impact
• Outpatient vs. Intensive Outpatient

P (9)

• Patient Education 101
• Perception or Deception?
• Physician Pitfalls
• Practical Advice on Prescription Painkillers
• Practice or Practitioner?
• Predicting Success in Groups
• Prescription ProTips for Physicians
• Professional Intervention
• Professionally Suspicious: Clinicians & Recovery Fellowships

R (20)

• Re-Engineering Recovery Tools
• Recognizing Depression
• Recognizing Enabling Behaviors
• Recognizing Unresolved Grief
• Recovery Anxiety
• Recovery at Christmas
• Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Step Seven
• Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Step Ten
• Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Steps 4, 5 and 6
• Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: Steps 8 & 9
• Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders: The First Three Steps
• Recovery Without God
• Recovery Works for EVERYONE
• RecoverySI’s Sober Blogroll
• Rehab Soundbytes
• Relapse is Not Failure
• Retention
• Retrain Your Brain: Scripting
• Routines for Living Recovery
• Running for Recovery

S (17)

• “S/he Did it AGAIN?” Repeat DUI Offenders
• Setting Boundaries: The Initial Meeting
• Setting Boundaries: Understanding Your Client’s Agenda
• Seven Tips for Getting Started Right With AA
• Six Things You Can Do While Your Loved One’s in Treatment
• Sleep Better in Early Recovery
• Slips and How to Avoid Them
• Sober Again in Margaritaville
• Social Networking and Recovery Services
• Some Observations on Mental Health Diagnosis
• Some Observations on Mental Illness
• Stigma Keeps People From Seeking Help
• Stigma Makes People Feel Inferior
• Stigma: Overcoming the Effects
• Stronger Together: Addiction Group Treatment
• Success in the Marketplace
• Synthetic Marijuana: A Brief Look

T (40)

• Taking Action: Analyze Past Flaws
• Taking Action: Know the Enemy
• Taking Action: Review the Defenses
• Taking Charge by Having Faith
• Taking the Fifth
• Ten Steps to a Strategic Plan
• THC and CBD
• The Active and the Passive
• The Advice Trap
• The Alcoholic Person’s Friend
• The Biology of Anxiety
• The Challenge of the Repeat Offense Drunk Driver
• The Church of the Exalted Chemical
• The Colors of Serenity
• The Conditioning Trap
• The Culture of Drug Use
• The Damage Assessment
• The Defenses We’ll Face
• The Family That Recovers Together
• The Ghost of DUIs Past
• The Innovation Shopper
• The Intervention Tipping Point
• The Mighty Commitment
• The Power of Denial
• The Practitioner vs. the Technique
• The Price Shopper
• The Professional as Target: Being Manipulated
• The Readiness is All
• The Relationship Shopper
• The Stress Toolbox
• The Struggle to Maintain
• The View Depends on Where You Stand
• Three Challenges
• Tips on Improving Addictions Education
• To Mom, With Love- Your Addict Son
• Tools for Recovery
• Tragic and Costly: DUI/DWI
• Trauma and Memory
• Treating the Juvenile Offender
• Turning Off the Anxiety Switch

U (7)

• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client
• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 1
• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 2
• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 3
• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 7
• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 8
• Using Leverage in Counseling the Court-Referred Client, Part 9

V (1)

• Vaillant and the Long Term View of Relapse

W (21)

• We All Need Boundaries
• What ‘Empathy’ Means
• What IS a “Recovery-Friendly” Community?
• What is a Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD)?
• What is Trauma?
• What Keeps Alcoholic and Addicted People From Getting Help
• What Makes a Good Interventionist?
• What to Expect From Counseling
• What to Look for in a Sponsor
• When You Love a Shapeshifter
• Where Goals and Effectiveness Meet
• Why Addicted People Manipulate
• Why Addiction is a Family Disease
• Why Alcoholic People Resist Help
• Why Enabling?
• Why Gender-Specific Rehab?
• Why Intervention Works
• Why Slogans?
• Why Some Programs Succeed: A Marketing Approach
• Why You Can’t Stop Someone Else From Drinking or Drugging
• Women and Men: Different Experiences of Recovery

Y (2)

• You Get Out What You Put In
• Your Greatest Fear