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Washington Post Article titled "‘Meth. We’re on it,’ South Dakota says in ridiculed ad campaign that cost $449,000"

First Milestone Achieved:

Successfully completed Training of Professionals on Preventing Substance Abuse in Schools and Community @ at PASK Hall 16 - 17 November, 2019 Karachi, Pakistan

In the first phase of the project 32 young...

Emotional Contagion. Have you ever been in a bad mood and all of a sudden it seems like everyone around you is in a bad mood, too? Do you feel that your emotions and mood can be “caught” by others? Psychology says emotional contagion is the...

Change Talk

When I talk with people, I hear various degrees of what MI calls “change talk.”

As described here, the types of change talk include:

• Desire: Why would you want to make this change?
• Ability: How would you do it if you...

1) PRECONTEMPLATION STAGE

“It isn’t that we cannot see the solution. It’s that we cannot see the problem.”

Precontemplators usually show up in therapy because of pressures from others… spouses, employers, parents, and courts… Resist...

In psychotherapy, a dual relationship occurs when a therapist has a second, significantly different relationship with their client in addition to the traditional client-therapist bond. For example, a therapist may find that the person...

Addiction therapy is often a personal and complex thing, which relies on interaction, bonding, and communication between counselors and their patients. This often happens because many of the people choosing to become addiction counselors...

More often than not, the answer is: no.

• “I’m in recovery too…so you can trust the suggestions I give you.”
• “I’ve been there, done that, so I ‘get’ where you are coming from.”
• “When I was in early recovery I wouldn’t trust normal people...

Q breaks into song, and the lyrics reflect something of himself: "My heart aches, my heart aches and my heart aches," he croons. The 10-year-old hopes to go professional one day, but his mother says that first, he has to break his addiction...

• A new study finds that addiction has gone up among young people who live in states where recreational cannabis is legal.
• The overall rate of addiction remains low, but the findings are concerning for experts.
• Additionally, experts...

With the police department’s repeated pleas to educational institutes to crack the whip against rampant substance abuse in their campuses and hostels falling on deaf years, the police have warned they will raid the institutions armed with...

The rot in Northeast India’s substance abuse problem runs deep. A recent study shows that the prevalence of any type of substance abuse - smoking, smokeless tobacco products, alcohol - in men in Northeastern states is much higher (20...

Drug addiction or substance abuse is on a high in the city, but what rings alarm bells is the fact that the age bracket for substance abuse has fallen to as low as five years. Recently, a joint team of Childline and police found seven...

Muitas pessoas não sabem que dependência química é uma doença crônica que possui tratamento. Ela se caracteriza pelo abuso de álcool, maconha, cocaína, crack ou outras substâncias entorpecentes, lícitas ou ilícitas. Esse tipo de doença...

A public health treaty set up to cut tobacco-related diseases and deaths has been extended to Jersey and Guernsey by the UK.

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the distinguished global tobacco control instrument...