I ran an adolescent outpatient substance treatment program for many years.

One night I was standing in my office with some parents. We had just finished a graduation group where their daughter had...

The video above describes a really common problem that occurs in drug treatment, and that's when the client, the family, and the treatment team aren't all on the same page with regard to the...

Last week I presented a webinar for The Greenhouse Holistic Healing CEU Series, a monthly training hosted by The Greenhouse, a leading substance use treatment facility here in Dallas, Texas. 

The video above includes two of the shortest—but perhaps most effective—lectures you'll find on how addiction impacts the family system:

• The 8-Second Lecture on Chemical Dependency
• The...

At first I was going call this post "Back To Basics." But I decided to be more direct, so I went with "Understanding Substance Use Disorder." Let me explain...

I've worked in the...

I'd like to take a minute to talk about denial.

More specifically, I'd like to talk about how many problems "denial" causes when it comes to understanding what it means to have a...