The following series of articles provides the reader with brief descriptions of some of the diverse ways that people with substance-related problems can be helped. It is organized into two subsections. Treatment consists of summaries of the common ways...

The development of treatment programs for the age-old problem of drug and alcohol abuse has been a fairly recent phenomenon. Most formal treatment programs were founded in the latter half of the twentieth century; the mid-1960s were a period of...

Perhaps there is no other illness to which the saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is more applicable than it is to substance abuse and dependence. The reason for this is that once a person becomes dependent on, or...

Treatment may refer to: In health: Therapy, the act of remediation of a health problem, which could include: chemotherapy counseling pharmacotherapy psychotherapy In the arts: Film treatment, a prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a...

Treatment, not jail, for non-violent addicts By SHERYL MCCARTHY Sunday, May 20, 2001 Robert Downey Jr.'s latest arrest, on charges of being high on drugs on a California street, was heartbreaking, given that it was his fourth arrest in five years....

Stress Test Eve Ensler's new drama about a soldier, his hot shrink, and some naughty war crimes The Treatment By Eve Ensler Culture Project 45 Bleecker Street 212-307-4100 Not until 1980 did psychiatrists certify post-traumatic stress disorder...

What woman hasn’t dreamed about being whisked away by a noble prince, living out the rest of her days in a beautiful castle? Make your fantasy a reality by planning a stay in a royal-residence-cum-hotel. These luxe locales will transport you to old world romance...

Having been thoroughly indoctrinated by those girl-power dating books—The Rules, He’s Just Not That Into You, and, most recently, The List—I am fairly cutthroat about dating lulls. You know: you go out with someone a couple of times and then … nothing. Sometimes it’s eternal—you...