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Conference set on substance abuse, addiction treatment
Posted on 09/28/2009
Program to focus on adolescent and young adult intervention strategies DANBURY Harvard Medical School Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Edward Khantzian and Cambridge Health Alliance Director of Addictions Treatment Dr. Mark Albanese will discuss treatment strategies for drug abuse among youth as part of a daylong conference at Western Connecticut State University on Friday, Oct. 16, according to a news release. Their talk will focus on adolescent and young adult substance abuse and addiction. The "New Hope for Healing and Recovery" conference will feature talks, symposiums, panel discussions and master classes presented by medical, psychiatric, counseling, social and community services, and justice administration professionals specializing in the study and treatment of youth substance abuse. The program will be from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the university's Westside Campus Center, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. The program will offer a morning series of lectures on successful approaches to abuse and addiction treatment for adolescents and young adults, as well as two afternoon sessions in which participants will choose from 18 symposiums addressing specialized topics. Themes and subjects covered during the conference have been selected with a view toward serving the professional development needs of academic, clinical, community and justice system practitioners in the areas of counseling, treating and preventing substance abuse and addiction among youth. The event is cosponsored by the WestConn Substance Abuse Prevention Program, Caron Treatment Centers, Insight Counseling, the Housatonic Valley Coalition Against Substance Abuse (HVCASA), and the Midwestern Connecticut Council on Alcoholism (MCCA). The opening conference lectures by Khantzian and Albanese will discuss "The Long Road to Healing and Hope: The New Understanding of Self-Medication and Substance Abuse and Addiction." Khantzian, associate chief of psychiatry emeritus at Tewksbury (Mass.) Hospital, is founder and senior member of the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) department of psychiatry and has conducted extensive research on substance abuse caused by attempts to self-medicate. Khantzian and Albanese, who also serves as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, are coauthors of "Understanding Addiction as Self-Medication: Finding Hope Behind the Pain," published this year by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. The CHA, affiliated with Harvard and Tufts universities, provides a network of primary and specialty physician care, hospital care, and public health services in the Massachusetts communities of Cambridge, Somerville and north Boston. Other speakers during the morning session will include a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC) from Ridgefield and two youth addiction specialists at Caron Treatment Centers, a major provider of comprehensive addiction treatment services based in Wernersville, Pa. Elizabeth Driscoll Jorgensen, owner of Insight Counseling in Ridgefield, will speak on "How to Engage Highly Resistant Adolescents and Young Adults in the Process of Treatment and Recovery." Her talk will be followed by a presentation on "Utilizing the Positive Peer Culture Model for Treating the Young Adult Population" by David Rotenberg, Caron executive director of adolescent and young adult services, and Thomas Deitzler, Caron director of young adult services. Following a lunch break, the conference will offer two 90-minute sessions featuring concurrently running symposiums, panel discussions and master classes on a diverse range of topics in diagnosis, treatment and continuing care of youth substance abuse and addiction. Among these will be discussions of effective intervention and care strategies implemented at WestConn, medical and psychiatric aspects of abuse and addiction, treatment of youth alcoholism and DUI offenders, parental and family intervention, and community organizing to support prevention program funding. Registration, contact information Advance registration is required, at a fee of $150 for registrations received by Sept. 30 and $170 for submissions after Sept. 30. Registrations may be submitted by email at hvcasa@snet.net or fax at (203) 743-7317, and mailed with payment to HVCASA, 69 Stony Hill Road, Bethel CT 06801. For more information, contact Sally Cohen of Insight Counseling at (203) 431-9726.
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Psychiatry has replaced religion as the main instrument of social control of modern industrial societies. As the intrusion of the state into previously private realms in modern democracies has caused the need for more and more coerion; the power of civil society, family and religion have continously eroded. The existential freedom (and responsibility) of the individual to create his own values and meaning has been disappearing. Irrespective of the supposedly good intentions of activists, social workers, and politicians; the excessive concern with social equality can only lead to mental and perhaps literal slavery. Only this ''excessive concern with social equality'' could, for example, justify giving children CNS stimulant drugs while at the same time prohibiting adults from using them.
We reject the usage of medicine as an instrument of social control, however, we cannot totally free ourselves from the madhouse of the therapeutic state. The whole world has become a hospital. Popular opinion and politicians find it too useful to control people in this manner. We also reject most violence, not on the grounds that violence is in itself always bad, and while we will note the the rights of homosexuals was changed after the stonewall riots, violence is mostly bad and usually causes more problems than it solves. Rather than being pacificists we advocate the right kind violence in the right kind of way. We can sow the seeds for this right kind of violence by advocating out and out insurrection against psychiatry. An insurrection against psychiatry need not include violence in any way shape or form at this present time. For now we can safely advocate the following forms of insurrection:
A) Lying to the medical profession. Because psychiatry is primarily (although not always) an instrument of social control, we should have no expectation whatsoever that mental health workers are agents of our interests. We should have no reason therefore to be honest to any member of the medical profession whatsoever at this point in history unless we have good reason to be. This includes giving a false history, tampering with drug tests, lying about disability to receive benefits, misleading court officials to receive more lenient sentences, and so on.
B) Cheating at the game of psychiatry. If an age is imbued with error, then why be a victim of other people''s delusions? Decent profit could possibly be made from selling ritalin, so why not sell it? How can one possibly fake having a fake disease? Why should a victim of the inner city drug war not rob methadone users by slipping them naloxtone? A well versed malingerer would note the correct diseases to have: Fibromyalgia, for instance, cannot easily be disproved. Why not get rid of an enemy by "confessing" to a mental health professional that they may be abusing their child, suicidal, or depressed? It can probably be done anonymously through an employee assistance program, some of them have passwords and codes. The drug court system will allow a way out for the right minded criminal. Im not advocating that the average reader smuggle crack over the border unless so inclined, but cheat the therapeutic state if you can!
C) Demonstrations of cheating. As it becomes obvious that some are cheating at the game of psychiatry one of two things will happen: Either it psychiatry will become more powerful or less powerful. It will only become less powerful if it is less useful to politicians. If it is becoming less powerful, well then all the better, if is becoming more powerful at least we are not being robbed by the delusions of others. So how do we demonstrate the cheating of psychiatry? Well we cant do it outright that would be too dangerous. Methods of cheating at the therapeutic state can and should be spread on books, art, writing to prisoners, leaders of gangs, psychiatry victims, Scientologists, and others who would likely be victims of psychiatric coercion.
D) Rejection of activism. This is a non-political movement, we are going to take control of our lives and ignore the therapeutic state. It is beyond reforming. The powerful economic, social and political forces that gave birth to the therapeutic state are beyond the scope of this essay and they are beyond our conscious control regardless and we are not going to be the victims of society so some useless social parasite or politician can enjoy a more comfortable existence. The state will have to change its behavior when people are ignoring or cheating at the therapeutic game in the end.
We have an exciting future ahead of us as we watch the therapeutic state crumble in front of our eyes. May we wait until the day when we can drink the blood of our enemies in the street!
Posted by: Not Auguste Comte | Sep 28, 2009
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specially the management ( type of medicine used)
Posted by: jahanzeb khan | Sep 28, 2009
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BC health official considers supervised rooms for crack addicts
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-health-official-considers-supervised-rooms-for-crack-addicts/article1329842/
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