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The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse will hold its 32nd Annual AMERSA National Conference on November 6-8, 2008, in Washington DC.

The meeting will reflect on AMERSA's interdisciplinary strengths and the commitment to disseminate the latest developments in substance abuse education, prevention, treatment and research that challenge all health care professionals.

Confirmed plenary sessions include:

Carlo DiClemente, PhD and Thaddeus Herzog, PhD in a Spicy Debate - Contemplating Change: The Pros and Cons of the Transtheoretical Model for Understanding Changes in Substance Use

John Rodolico, PhD, Terence Keane, PhD and Susan Storti, PhD, RN in a Plenary Panel Session on Combat Stress and Substance Abuse in the Wake of War

Randolph D. Muck, MEd, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, speaking on Adolescent/Emerging Adults

John Cunningham, PhD, Senior Scientist Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, speaking on the Internet and New Media as Tools to Recovery

Jerome Jaffe, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, will be the recipient of the distinguished John P. McGovern Award

Stephanie O'Malley, PhD, Director, Division of Substance Abuse Research, CMHC, will receive the prestigious Betty Ford Award honoring her valuable contributions to the substance abuse field.

Call for Abstracts now open. Submit abstracts and workshops online by May 15.

For further information, visit www.amersa.org or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Feature Articles

Help Wanted: Managers to Lead Organizational Culture Change

Cultural
Written by James E. Burgin, MDiv, MAC
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
Editor’s Note: This article inaugurates what will be a regular column for managers. The next issue will carry the first Management Corner column,“The Monk’s Offer.” Right at the top of the risk factors confronted by the behavioral healthcare field is organizational culture rigidity. Even talented managers find that changing the historic culture of their organizations, so that they can thrive in the current environment for services, is a daunting challenge. The culture of an easier time for services dies hard. Too, day-to-day operating, narrowly focused on this year’s problems, created by last year’s solutions, sucks energy out of efforts to evolve a culture able to pursue next year’s opportunities.
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Chemical Dependency and the Family

Family
Written by Robert J. Ackerman, PhD
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
One of the best questions I ever heard about the family and chemical dependency came from an adult daughter of an alcoholic. She asked, “Let me see if I understand this; my father is an alcoholic, and therefore, he has alcoholism, which they say is a disease; but what do I have?”
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The TurnAround Mom Tells How She Neutralizes Toxic Intensity- The Mother of All Addictions

Profile
Written by Carey Sipp
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
Toxic intensity — self-induced anxiety — is addictive, and has tremendous relevance for today’s debt-laden, overweight, oversexed, overmedicated, jonesing for a drink society — and that includes me.
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Firewall for Recovery

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by Michael Galloway, MEd, MA
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
As addiction treatment professionals, we know the addict faces two challenges. The first is to stop using — to “put the plug in the jug.” The second is twofold: to make personal changes and to sustain a recovery program “one day at a time.”
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Symptoms of Addiction: Incorporating the New Brain Science

Mental Health
Written by Terence T. Gorski
Wednesday, 02 January 2008
Over the last two decades, addiction professionals have learned a great deal about the progressive symptoms of alcohol and drug addiction. Up until this time, the Jellinek Chart, a useful graphic representation of the symptoms of Gamma Alcoholism, developed by Dr. Glatt, and originally published in the British Journal of Addiction. Although much of the recent research supports the Jellinek symptoms of addiction, the new biopsychosocial research gives us a new perspective on the progressive symptoms of addiction. This new perspective is useful in prevention, the treatment of adolescents, and early identification programs for adults.
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