Addiction and Youth

Addiction, Recovery and Society

How society should view addiction

Ending recoveryism

Let’s stop insisting addiction is a disease

Will insurance cover addiction treatment if addiction is not a disease?

AA’s dominance in the US is harmful

Court-ordered 12-step attendance is illegal

CRAFT: An alternative to addiction “intervention”

Substance abuse evaluations in child custody cases

Addiction and youth

Teach teens drinking before it kills them

Why do college students drink so much? Why does anyone?

From adolescent substance experimentation to addiction

Helping your troubled teen without making things worse

Alcohol advertising targets youth

Addiction impaired professionals

On June 30, 2008, the state of California stopped its medical diversion program.  This program was designed to protect the public from physicians with addiction problems, and simultaneously to assist physicians in achieving addiction recovery.  The diversion program was widely criticized as less than effective.  To address the concerns about the medical diversion program, the California legislature passed SB1441:

“SB 1441 created the Substance Abuse Coordination Committee (SACC) subject to Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act and requires the committee, by January 1, 2010, to formulate uniform and specific standards in specified areas that each healing arts board shall use in dealing with substance-abusing licensees, whether or not a board chooses to have a formal diversion program.”  quoted from http://www.dca.ca.gov/about_dca/sacc/index.shtml.

Dr. Horvath has submitted written comments to the SACC:

Addiction evaluation and treatment, comments on Standards 1 and 2 (submitted May 4, 2009)

Addiction evaluation and treatment, comments on Standards 3-6 (submitted May 4, 2009)

Addiction evaluation and treatment, further comments, Standards 1-4 (submitted May 28, 2009), Introduction

Addiction evaluation and treatment, further comments, Standards 1-4 (submitted May 28, 2009), The role of the professional addiction evaluation

Addiction evaluation and treatment, further comments, Standards 1-4 (submitted May 28, 2009), The role of a diversion board

Addiction evaluation and treatment, furrther comments, Standards 1-4 (submitted May 28, 2009), Example: Dr. Wrong Place

Addiction evaluation and treatment, further comments, Standards 1-4 (submitted May 28, 2009), Example: Dr. Serious Troubles