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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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About The Magazine

Counselor, the Magazine for Addiction Professionals is a national, peer-reviewed publication that blends the in-depth information often found in journals with the ease-of-read and style of a magazine.

The magazine has a circulation of 21,000+ addiction treatment professionals – including psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, criminal justice personnel, nurses, clinical supervisors, social workers, and mental health counselors.

The bi-monthly publication (February, April, June, August, October, and December) features in-depth articles written by the top experts in the addiction treatment field. In addition, each issue of Counselor features several columns – On the Web, Research to Practice, Professional Development and Alternative Therapies – that deliver practical and useful advice to addiction professionals. Readers can also earn CE credits by completing the quizzes included in each issue.

In 2007, Counselor provided an in-depth look at topics about chronic addiction and recovery management; how to keep clients in treatment; counseling chemically dependent, hard-to-reach males; yoga as a healer; sex offenders in addiction treatment; "love" addiction; implications of online counseling; and much more.

Features slated for 2008 include topics about addiction in Baby Boomers, involving children in the recovery process, adolescent violence, ADHD and addictions, science-based theory regarding addiction as a brain disease, holistic remedies, ethics issues, BiPolar disorder and substance abuse, implications of online counseling, gay and lesbian substance abuse treatment, gambling addictions, and much more.

In each issue of Counselor, addiction treatment professionals also are provided with assessment tools and expert advice through award-winning writers and researchers, all of whom are top experts in the addiction treatment field. Previously titled “Professional Counselor,” Counselor, the Magazine for Addiction Professionals, is published by Health Communications, Inc.

Our Parent Company - Health Communications, Inc.

Founded in 1976, Health Communications (HCI), located in Deerfield Beach, Florida, publishes several new titles per year for professionals and consumers, including such well-known titles as Adult Children of Alcoholics (Woititz), Healing the Child Within (Whitfield), and Healing the Shame that Binds You (Bradshaw). The company also provides information and education to addiction and mental health professionals through Counselor, The Magazine for Addiction Professionals, as well as our fully accredited conferences and distance learning via US Journal Training, Inc. and interactive sites on the World Wide Web (www.counselormagazine.com, www.usjt.com, www.hci-online.com).