Product Description: Psychology and Spiritual Transformation in a Substance Abuse Program: The Lazarus Project presents the results of an independent five-year study on spiritual transformation at a twelve-month residential program called the Lazarus Project—an agency that takes a Pentecostal faith-based approach to dealing with substance abuse...read more

Product Description: A masterful, high-yield guide to the treatment of substance abuse issues, The ASAM Essentials of Addiction Medicine equips you with the expert know-how you need to provide effective help for your patients. Derived from The ASAM Principles of Addiction Medicine, 5th Edition – widely hailed as the definitive comprehensive clinical reference in the field – this companion resource presents the collective wisdom of hundreds of esteemed authorities on the art and science of addiction medicine...read more

Product Description: Through Homelessness Prevention in Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness: Logic Models and Implementation of Eight American Projects, psychiatrist, psychologists, and social workers will discover the results of eight, three-year long development projects funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) designed to prevent homelessness in high- risk populations who have problems with alcoholism, drug abuse, and/or mental illness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Historically, there has been little integration of theoretical or applied research on addiction treatment and parenting intervention development. Rather, the fields of addiction and developmental research have progressed on largely separate trajectories, even though their focus powerfully and often tragically intersects each time a parent is diagnosed with a substance use disorder...read more

Product Description: Designed for the general reader, this two-volume set provides authoritative and essential information pertaining to addictions and substance abuse in easy-to-understand language. The seventh title in Salem's well-received Salem Health series, Salem Health: Addictions & Substance Abuse provides authoritative, essential information on complementary and alternative medicine in easy-to-understand language...read more

Product Description: Hamilton focuses on a population of offenders released from prison to halfway houses. Based on assessments administered prior to admission, intervention groups were established using Latent Class Analysis, which identified several classes or types of substance abusing offenders...read more

Product Description: A groundbreaking, user-friendly handbook of proven-effective strategies for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.About eleven million people in North America have a substance use disorder and at least one other mental health disorder...read more

Product Description: In Inside the Methadone Clinic Industry, former methadone counselor Lisa Berry takes the reader into a never before published insider's view of the profiteering and politics rampant in the methadone clinic industry. She exposes some critical issues within the system: ...read more

Product Description: Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that of DePaul University and the Oxford House communityThis book reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative partnership between Oxford House (a community-based, self-run residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul University...read more

Product Description: A dramatic rise in the number of 'multi-problem' clients have forced community-based addiction treatment centers to answer some tough questions: How do you effectively treat record numbers of diverse and difficult clients? How do you tailor evidence-based interventions to a client's individual background involving possible incarceration, ongoing supervision, a history of trauma and a high risk of relapse? Moreover, how do practitioners work effectively within a society that stigmatizes drug users? Because the largest and fastest growing segment of the community-based addiction treatment population includes those who are mandated, this book addresses the task of 'making mandated addiction treatment work...read more

Product Description: The problems and needs of rural substance abusers vary from those of abusers in urban areas. Accordingly, the means of treatment must acknowledge and address these differences. Despite this call for specialized care, no theoretically grounded therapy has yet been made available to rural patients...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Thompson, Robert