"Ben Goresky wrote
at 9:07pm on October 11th, 2007
As I said before. The parents in the Calgary area were desperate for a program that would treat their kids. Just like the parents in Saskatchewan are desperate now to have a program that will help theirs. And the truth is that there were nearly no professionals in the field at that time who specialized in addiction, as addiciton specialization is a fairly new thing. Most research on addiction that has any validity has been published in the last 15 years."
The following come directly from All About Receiving Cash's most recent version of their website:
"Cavailoa, Schiff, and Kane-Cavailoa (1990) assert that successful recovery is also an ongoing process."
“Emert (1988) points out that adolescents often find a ‘rush’ from the acceptance and self-discovery that they experience while in a residential treatment program."
"Catalano et al (1990-1991) adds: “Time in treatment was positively related to during and post-treatment outcomes in residential treatment settings."
“Surveys of the literature within the field of adolescent addiction repeatedly point up to the need to treat substance abuse within the family context” (Wright 1988).
“Very little valid and concrete research is available in regard to family therapy for parents of adolescent substance abusers” (Sorensen and Bernal, 1987).
"Morrison (1988) explains family therapy is “absolutely mandatory” for the treatment of chemically dependent adolescents."
"Obemeier and Henry (1989) recommended that it is essential that the family component be part of any inpatient treatment model."
"Consequently, young people often fail to maintain quality sobriety in its unstructured environment (Forrest, 1984.)"
"While research shows that participants appear to be involved in more positive activities, they are still involved in dysfunctional behaviour and are abusing drugs and alcohol (Thompson, Dyer, Hewitt, 1988)."
"“At present, Canadian professionals are struggling to address how to treat addicted youth. While there are several different approaches, none is clearly the most effective” (Overy, J.M., Overy, N.M., 1985)."
"As Russell (1990) concludes, “The area of substances abuse and adolescence is not well researched and is characterized by extreme philosophical/theoretical differences which determine treatment approaches.”
"Drastic and expensive practices have left adolescent treatment itself open to charges of sloppy assessment, over-diagnosis, and ineffective and inappropriate programs (Nakken, 1991)."
"AARC is a valuable asset to Albertans and Canadians as a provider of ongoing research and empirical studies in this field."
