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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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Counseling Difficult-to-Reach Adolescent Males with Substance Use Disorders: Strength-based Approach

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by Shannon Mayeda, PhD, LCSW, CRADC and Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC
Monday, 06 August 2007
Difficult-to-reach adolescent males with substance use disorders often engage in behaviors that can lead to a “failure identity,” including delinquency, crime, truancy, academic failure, destructive peer group affiliation, substance use and relapse. Our traditional approach is in dire contrast to the strength-based approach, in that it can leave difficult-to-reach adolescent males feeling more inadequate, incapable, labeled, stigmatized, defiant and more difficult to reach than before they entered our program (Sanders, 2006).
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Barriers to Treatment for Women

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by Susan M. Gordon, PhD
Monday, 06 August 2007
The past 30 years have seen an increase in funding and focus on women’s substance abuse treatment. We know that women often face treatment issues that differ from men and require gender-specialized treatment approaches to address these issues. Publicly-funded, as well as private treatment programs, have increased their services to women and have developed specialized programs to meet the needs of pregnant and parenting women.
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New Developments in Treatment for Alcohol Dependence

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by Kyle M. Kampman, MD and Christopher R. Wilkins, MHA
Monday, 06 August 2007
Alcohol dependence is a complex and difficult disease to treat, often requiring a sophisticated approach to treatment. Recent advances in medications approved for treatment of alcohol dependence make pharmacotherapies important therapeutic options for alcohol-dependent individuals.
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Bill W. and Dr. Bob Makes Off Broadway Debut - An Interview with the Playwrights

Cultural
Written by Stephanie L. Muller
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
In addition to his “day job” as a doctor on the Harvard Medical School faculty and running a private psychiatric practice, Dr. Stephen Bergman also is a published novelist and playwright. In a writing career than spans more than 30 years, he has written novels and plays under the pen-name Samuel Shem, including his classic novel about medical internship, The House of God (1978), which has sold more than two million copies, in 30 languages. He has been honored as one of “Boston’s Best Authors” and has given commencement addresses at more than 50 medical schools on “How to Stay Human in Medicine.” His newest novel, The Spirit of the Place, will be published in 2008.
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The Rubik's Cube of Addiction Counseling Part 6: The Journey

Treatment Strategies or Protocols
Written by By William A. Howatt, Phd, EdD, ICADC
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
The paradox of this series, likening the treatment process of an addictive disorder to the solving of a Rubik’s Cube, is that the last side of the cube is the only one that really matters. If we never reach this point in treatment, the client’s hope of a quality future is minimal.
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