The Therapeutic Community: Theory, Model and Method (Hardcover)

This volume provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of the Therapeutic Community (TC) theory and its practical “whole person” approach to the treatment of substance abuse disorders and related problems.

Housewives Hooked on Cocaine

Women are statistically at the same level as men in the abuse of cocaine, according to this Daily Mail article

Addiction: Is it Physical or Psychological?

Understanding addiction has never been an exact science, especially to those who are in the front line trying to help people in their recovery. It can be argued that addiction is a chronic relapsing illness. Many in the world, who don’t understand this definition as applied to addiction, (and often the drug users themselves), think that perhaps addiction is just a matter of choice and making right decisions.
More Light and Less Heat Needed.

There’s no free lunch!

Maxims of the Therapeutic Community. This maxim is ‘There’s no free lunch’

Women could overtake men for cocaine abuse

A startling revelation about women and cocaine abuse from the Daily Telegraph

Leonardo DiCaprio’s role as a drug addict in The Basketball Diaries is to be analysed.

Using psychoanalysis to look at the depiction of drug addiction in film. This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on 14 January 2009.

There may not be an obvious connection between Frank Sinatra, Leonardo DiCaprio and psychiatry, but a series of screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London hopes to use psychoanalysis to [...]

Cycle of Change – Relapse

Why is change so difficult? Maybe we believe it has already cost us a lot to get this far so why risk everything. We are also creatures of habit. We form our habits, then our habits form us.

Cycle of Change – 5. Maintenance

Why is change so difficult? Maybe we believe it has already cost us a lot to get this far so why risk everything. We are also creatures of habit. We form our habits, then our habits form us.

Cycle of Change – 4. Action

Why is change so difficult? Maybe we believe it has already cost us a lot to get this far so why risk everything. We are also creatures of habit. We form our habits, then our habits form us.

Cycle of Change – 3. Preparation or Determination

Why is change so difficult? Maybe we believe it has already cost us a lot to get this far so why risk everything. We are also creatures of habit. We form our habits, then our habits form us.