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Addiction is a Disease
Over the weekend, I was talking to a physician who didn’t believe that addiction was a disease. It is a frustrating fact of our profession that we need to have this debate over and over again despite the long historical recognition of addiction being a disease. In the United States, Read more…
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Why is it so hard to implement evidence based practices?
When I was getting my first graduate degree to become a child and family therapist, I took a class in addiction studies and completed my internship in an addiction treatment program. When I was hired for my first job as a family therapist working with families at risk of losing Read more…