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We’d like the Library to be a one-stop shop for information and resources on addiction, treatment, and recovery. We’ll be building sections for different types of media, topic areas, and audiences, just like a real-world library.

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Families: Why Alanon?

February 11, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

If you’ve made friends among people who share your experience and are willing to listen, you’re miles ahead of most family members, who still have no place where they can safely vent their own problems.

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12-Step Programs for Families

February 10, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

Family programs like Al-anon and Alateen can help us learn ways to recover from the effects of someone else’s addiction, and help us contribute to their recovery

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Deterring Drunk Driving: Thoughts on Designing a System

February 9, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

If estimates are correct that a typical offender has driven under the influence between 60 and 100 times prior to first arrest, it’s clear the actual problem is far, far greater than arrests alone can document.

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Deterring Drunk Driving: The Role of Treatment

February 8, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

It seems to me that a successful approach to DWI must be based on the assumption that drunk drivers are a diverse population.

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Deterring Drunk Driving: Do Sanctions Work?

February 2, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

One state estimates around a fifth of offenders are rearrested within three years of the prior conviction. Expand that window to five or ten years and the rate is likely substantially higher.

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Deterring Drunk Driving: Who’s Likely to Reoffend?

February 1, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

One or two (risk factors) is not as suggestive of repeat offending as four or five. But it does allow a clinician to apply a rough risk profile to a particular offender.

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The Challenge of the Repeat Offense Drunk Driver

January 28, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

It’s difficult to squeeze a lot of motivational work into the course of outpatient counseling. Clinicians are anxious to get to the behavior change part.

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Tragic and Costly: DUI/DWI

January 27, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

Public perceptions of how we should and shouldn’t treat offenders often result in less than optimal solutions both for the addict/alcoholic and for the victims and the larger society that must pay.

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Resetting Your Triggers

January 22, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

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The trick is to find another reward to replace the one that’s no longer available. For instance, if we’re no longer going to have a cigarette with coffee after dinner, what other reward could we substitute in its place?

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Gaining Compliance

January 15, 2012 by C. Scott McMillin

With ‘coerced’ clients, it’s easy to fall into a little game with the client striving to appear in compliance while covertly doing whatever he wants.

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