I flew to Banff Canada this week to present Relapse Prevention: Taking the Mystery out of the Relapse Process, for The Canadian Association of Drug Treatment Court Professionals Annual Faces of Addiction Conference. See below information from their website wwwcadtc.org Drug Treatment Courts have the responsibility to handle cases involving drug-using offenders through a system [...]

*Serenity Speaker Meeting* Feed your soul and feed your body! Come Join us for an evening of recovery and food When: Thursday Evenings DINNER 630:7:30 & MEETING 7:30-8:30 PM Where: Serenity Malibu 6021 Galahad Dr. Malibu, CA 90265

*Serenity Step Study* A 12 step workshop If you have worked the steps WE NEED YOU! If you are working the steps WE NEED YOU! If you want to work the steps WE NEED YOU! When: Monday Evenings DINNER 630:7:30 & MEETING 7:30-9:00 PM Where: Serenity Malibu 6021 Galahad Dr. Malibu, CA 90265 Bring your [...]

While the weather here in Southern California has yet to make up its mind about the season – summer, fall, summer, fall – we’re moving full speed ahead into our holiday preparations. Like many people, it happens to be our favorite time of year, mostly because we get to gather our family and friends around [...]

Where did I hear this? I can’t remember exactly. It was at an awards ceremony when a survivor of the Holocaust who had been put on film (Spielberg?) said in an acceptance speech something like, “people think I am boring because I don’t care about going to so many places but still, after all these [...]

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Do not care overly much for wealth or power or fame or one day you will meet someone who cares for none of these things and you might realize how poor you have become. In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments, only consequences. Anger and fear do not exist in reality [...]

Introduction: Setting the Stage — The Era of Medication-Assisted Treatment More than 50 million Americans are currently living with chronic pain unrelated to cancer. The costs associated with chronic pain are approximately 90 billion dollars annually. During the last two decades of the 20th century, there has been increased interest in support of fundamentally changing [...]