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You are here: TxDirector > Addiction MedicineAdministrator's CornerClinical SupervisionClinicians CornerColumnistsCounselor WellnessCredentialingDomestic ViolenceEmploymentFamily IssuesMental HealthOf Interest To EveryonePreventionReaders RequestsReading RoomSelf-HelpSpiritualityTreatmentTreatment Populations > AlcoholAssessmentCocaineContinuing CareCurriculumHeroinMethamphetamineNicotineOtherSedatives A Life Course Perspective on Exiting Addiction: The Relevance of Recovery 2007-01-31 Topics: Clinicians Corner | Treatment By Don Phillips Recovery capital are the positives that help us through life regardless of our difficulties -- the wind at our backs as we negotiate an uncluttered downhill path. But separate and apart from the resource capital, there are the personal deficits. This article doesn't address the deficits but some that we see often are co-occurring disorders. Here is the introduction to the article with a web connection for the entire article. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Pragmatic Clinical Assessments 2005-10-06 Topics: Clinicians Corner | Treatment By Norman G. Hoffmann, Ph.D. Descriptions of practical clinical assessment instruments and related research... View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback Balancing Placement Decisions 2005-08-28 Topics: Clinicians Corner | Treatment By Landon Kimbrough This is the second article of a series focusing on implementation of the Patient Placement Criteria, Second Edition (PPC) of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) in the chemical dependency treatment system. The authors of the PPC designed it to help increase treatment opportunities for chemically dependent people, describing in a systematic way how patients had been affected by the disease. In addition, implications for treatment were made clear and a common language was developed. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback What Dimension Was That Again? 2005-08-26 Topics: Clinicians Corner | Treatment By Landon Kimbrough The word "ASAM" is on the lips of most people in the chemical dependency field today, generally with no small amount of anxiety. ASAM is the acronym for the American Society of Addiction Medicine, who developed the Patient Placement Criteria (PPC-2) that has been implemented in treatment facilities around the country. These changes to our systems have raised clinicians concerns about additional paperwork and time, administrators about costs and bureaucrats about regulatory compliance. As with many changes in widespread systems, rumors abound. View and Post Feedback This article has 0 Feedback   Showing 1-4 of 4

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