Substance Use Problems

career in the addiction field. I could not recommend it more highly." George A. Parks, PhD, Associate Director, Addictive Behaviors Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA "Dr. Earleywine has produced a wonderful introductory volume for practitioners and others who want to learn the current state of the art in empirically validated assessment and treatment of substance use disorders. In a refreshing departure from ideologically driven views of substance use and substance users, he has followed the science to produce a readable, informative volume." Frederick Rotgers, PsyD, ABPP, Program Director of Clinical Psychology PhD, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN "Mitch Earleywine's 'Substance Use Problems' is the ideal volume for teaching students the issues involved in contemporary treatment of substance abuse problems. This is unsurprising - since Dr. Earleywine has been teaching this subject for the last 17 years while regularly winning awards in the process - along with accolades from his students. The qualities that produce these reactions to his teaching are everywhere evident in this volume - clear writing and explanation, strong knowledge of the important research in the field, respect for readers, students, treatment clients, and counselors, and a cutting edge familiarity with modern therapy techniques (like motivational interviewing) and emerging trends in the treatment field (like harm reduction), along with respectful attention to established treatment approaches and groups like the twelve steps and AA. In the same pithy and hard-hitting volume, Dr. Earleywine manages both to convey empathic hints and subtly nuanced techniques to counselors in training, while describing diagnostic systems and epidemiological data on who is susceptible to substance abuse and how they are likely to fare -- with and without treatment. Mitch Earleywine's volume is a beacon of light, good judgment, and balance in this rapidly changing and contentious field." Stanton Peele, PhD; Author, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction; Creator, Life Process Program (www.stgregoryctr.com) "... this brief text will be most useful to those who have yet to acquire any experience in the field of addictionology such as students or, perhaps, even seasoned clinicians who had never taken a substance-abuse-related course [...] I found this volume to be very informative despite my 30 years of practice, and I learned a great deal from Earleywine's excellent discussion of motivational interviewing, information that I will undoubtedly be able to use with future patients." Gregory Mavrides in PsycCRITIQUES, 2010