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The literature on diagnosis and treatment of drug and substance abuse is filled with successful, empirically based approaches, but also with controversy and hearsay. Health professionals in a range of settings are bound to meet clients with troubles related to drugs – and this text helps them separate the myths from the facts. It provides trainees and professionals with a handy, concise guide for helping problem drug users build enjoyable, multifaceted lives using approaches based on decades of research. Readers will improve their intuitions and clinical skills by adding an overarching understanding of drug use and the development of problems that translates into appropriate techniques for encouraging clients to change behavior themselves. This highly readable text explains not only what to do, but when and how to do it. Seasoned experts and those new to the field will welcome the chance to review the latest developments in guiding self-change for this intriguing, prevalent set of problems.
The literature on diagnosis and treatment of drug and substance abuse is filled with successful, empirically based approaches, but also with controversy and hearsay. Health professionals in a range of settings are bound to meet clients with troubles related to drugs – and this text helps them sep...
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Mitch Earleywine, PhD, is Professor of ClinicalPsychology at the University at Albany,State University of New York, where he teachesdrugs and human behavior, substance abusetreatment, and clinical research methods. He hasreceived over 20 teaching commendations,including the coveted General Education TeachingAward from the University of Southern California.His research funding has come from the NationalInstitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, theAlcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation,and the Marijuana Policy Project. He serves on theeditorial boards of four psychology journals,reviews for over a dozen, and has more than 120publications on drug use and abuse, including"Understanding Marijuana" (Oxford UniversityPress, 2002). He served as Chair of the Board ofDirectors for the National Organization for theReform of Marijuana Laws, and is a member of theResearch Society on Alcoholism, the Associationfor the Advancement of Behavior Therapy,and the Drug Policy Alliance.
Mitch Earleywine, PhD, is Professor of ClinicalPsychology at the University at Albany,State University of New York, where he teachesdrugs and human behavior, substance abusetreatment, and clinical research methods. He hasreceived over 20 teaching commendations,including the coveted General Educat...
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