Topics: Addiction | Free Articles | Substance Abuse

The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change has become almost universally accepted in addiction treatment. Like all dogmas, it is rarely critically examined, leading to blind belief and unskilled use.

In addiction treatment, one of the biggest challenges that clinicians face is helping clients recognize that they are their own experts for making positive behavior changes.

Research analyst Dan Gamble explains how ADKAR, one of the leading models for change in the business world, can be applied to addiction treatment.

Topics: Addiction | Research Updates | Substance Abuse

Chronic care management (CCM), used successfully to treat other chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, is one approach being looked at to improve care and clinical outcomes for patients with addiction.

Topics: Addiction | Research Updates | Substance Abuse

Can electronic cigarettes, commonly referred to as e-cigarettes, play a role in helping people quit smoking tobacco?

Topics: Addiction | News of Note | Pharmaceutical Industry

A coalition, formed to fight what it sees as an opioid epidemic, is rallying support against the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the drug Zohydro.

Topics: Addiction | News of Note | Pharmaceutical Industry

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