1. Power Point for Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective 2nd Edition Katherine van Wormer Diane Rae Davis Wadsworth Publishing Company 2008 copyright

2. Part I: Introduction
Addiction affects us all. Strengths perspective—strengths of clients and strengths of the contemporary models:
harm reduction
12 Step approach.
Rift in field.
Book in 3 parts: bio-psycho-social

3. Chapter I Nature of Addiction
Examples of addiction---smoker dying of emphysema, crack addict arrested, pregnant mother drinking heavily, girl hooked on meth she started using to lose weight
Economic cost—health, war on drugs, over 1 million in prison for drug involvement. Big business—gambling, Philip Morris, beer

4. What is addiction?
(Latin) addictus---attached to something, positive. Today alcoholism called a “brain disease”or bad habit or sin. Leading assumption of the text: Addiction is the key, not the substance or behavior
Addiction defined by researchers as “a bad habit,” “a brain disease,” “helplessness,” “a problem of motivation”

5. DSM-IV-TR Substance dependence: requires 3 of following:
tolerance inability to stop
withdrawal problems excessive spending or effort
use more than intended to obtain
reduced involvement continued use
Rigid dichotomy here between abuse and dependence. Van Wormer and Davis disagree, see addiction as a continuum. People move in and out of addiction.
DSM prefers term dependence over addiction.

6. Definitions
Abuse—unlike dependence does not include these criteria: tolerance, withdrawal, pattern of compulsive use.
Addiction—pattern of compulsive use.
Has physical, psychological, social aspects.
Emphasis on process rather than outcome.

7. Box 1.1 A Social Work Major Working in a Casino
What is the ethical dilemma here?
How do the managers ensure that the gamblers keep spending their money?
How are the employees controlled by the establishment?

8. The Disease Concept Is alcoholism a disease? Arguments by class pro:
Arguments con:

9. First, Define Disease
Disease - as metaphor by Jellinek: “alcoholism is like a disease”
Random House Dictionary, disease is a condition of the body in which this is incorrect function.
Oxford University Dictionary– disease is absence of ease (in treatment – disease as: primary, progressive, chronic, and possibly fatal).
Illness – term preferred here, less controversial, less medical.
Best arguments pro disease: alcoholism is a brain disease because the addicted brain has changed.
Best arguments against: just a habit, a behavior, need to take responsibility, people mature out of it.

10. Biopsychosocial-spiritual Model
Why (bio), what (psycho), where (social)
Need for spiritual healing, connection with Higher Power
Interactionism and cycle of pain: pain and suffering  loss  pain, stress and drinking more pain
Family as a system in interaction, roles

11. Why Do We Need to Know about Addiction?
80% of people behind bars have problems, pervasive in child welfare system, alcoholics in the workplace.
71% of social workers worked with clients with substance abuse disorders in the past year.
Headlines:
-“Hooked on Tanning?”
-“Shopaholics Climb on the Wagon”
Relevant movies: 28 days, Traffic, Walk the Line

12. Finding the strengths in divergent models,
Strengths Perspective
Charles Rapp:
Six critical elements: person is not the illness, choice, hope, purpose, achievement, presence of one key person to help.
Finding the strengths in divergent models,
Newer ones and traditional approaches.
Different models for different folks.
Very negative view of disease model: Stanton Peele: Resisting 12 Step Coercion
Harm reduction and the strengths perspective— “meet the client where the client is.” Policy issues of reducing harm.

13. Empirical Research Valliant’s Research Project MATCH
Directed by NIAAA – 2,000 clients over 8 yrs.
What works? 12 step facilitation, cognitive, motivational enhancement therapy (MET)
MET most effective for those with low motivation, 12 Step with religious persons.
Criticism: lack of a control group. MET, a shorter intervention. Models only tested on alcoholic clients.
Project MATCH confirms the effectiveness of diverse treatments. New measure for recovery is improvement, not total abstinence.
Valliant’s Research
40 year longitudinal study—those who recovered had crisis with alcohol or joined AA or entered a stable relationship or had a religious conversion.

14. Empirical Research Continued
Research from California: 1$ spent saves 7 across states.
Hester and Miller found that these treatment modalities were proven to be most effective: brief intervention, motivational interviewing (MI), medicine naltrexone, social skills training, aversion therapy, cognitive therapy, acupuncture. (See chapter 5)

15. Treatment Trends Harm reduction recognized important to save lives,
Belief that punitive laws cause harm.
69% of Americans favor treatment over jail.
Treatment now often provided in prison.
Drug courts.
Attention to co-occurring disorders.
Restorative Justice: Victim-offender programming to promote healing.

16. Historical Perspectives
Chapter 2
Historical Perspectives

17. Early History Alcohol back to 5000 BC Iran
Unknown to world’s indigenous people
Koran --- condemned wine. Alcohol from Arabic al-kuhul.
Arabian dr. discovered evaporated distilled spirits. Technology exceeded its grasp
distilling used–gin. Booze from Dutch busen.
Great devastation from England,
Infant mortality, crime

18. North America More beer than water on Mayflower.
Slaves forbidden to drink except on special occasions, taught bingeing.
Puritan traditions.
18th – Quakers and Methodists disapproved of hard liquor.
Male drinking cult notorious.

19. Temperance movement 1825-1919: Against hard liquor.
Temperance woman for women’s suffrage and ban on distilled beverages.

20. Early 1900s
Cocaine in Coke
1914 Harrison Act --- restricted opioids (associated with Chinese people) cocaine must now be prescribed.
Marijuana (associated with Mexicans) State laws in southwest criminalized.
Teetotaler T =total abstinence, from Ireland.

21. U.S. Prohibition
Glamorized crime. Mafia/ Hollywood/Wash. DC link. Homicide rates increased.
Great Depression created need for jobs.

22. Chapter Themes of First Half
Dangers of potent alcohol, role of ethnic prejudice in shaping drug legislation, unintended consequences of prohibition.
Example of happy Italian family enjoying wine with their meals.
Modern War on Drugs, 70% of money for law enforcement.

23. History of Addiction Treatment
William White, Slaying the Dragon. Mistreatment of persons with mentally illness and alcoholics in asylums.
Getting Better by Nan Robertson tells of Bill W. and Dr. Bob. Oxford Groups. Big Book. 2 million members in AA worldwide today.
Jellinek (The Disease Concept, 1960) – 5 types of alcoholism based on world travels:
Alpha, Beta, Gamma , Delta, Epsilon.

24. Treatment History continued
1956 AMA declared alcoholism a disease, 1966, a disease.
Harold Hughes –founded NIAAA.
Hazelden adapted 12 Step approach.
Box 2:1—“Treatment in Norway”—universal health care for support.
Peele and Fingarette: addiction as bad habits not disease.

25. History of Harm Reduction
AIDS in Netherlands spawned new approach, to reduce the harm.
Britain, 1960s and later.
Heroin prescribed. Needle exchanges-U.S.

26. Strengths Based Helping Strategies
Chapter 3
Strengths Based Helping Strategies

27. Dennis Saleebey
Focus on possibilities, choices—providing treatment options.
Resilience, healing, and wholeness.
Contrast with problem-solving approach.

28. Two Approaches to Treatment
Strengths-based
Bio
Continuum
Psycho
Strengths-motivation
Social
Holistic family as resource
Traditional
Bio
Dichotomy
Psycho
Problems mandate—one size fits all
Social
Identify family dysfunction

29. Four Models of Strengths-Based Approaches
1. Harm reduction: public health model, prevention, outreach. 
Abstinence not precondition to treatment
Stages of Change Model: Prochaska and DiClemente
Precontemplation
Contemplation
Preparation
Action
Maintenance
Relapse

30. 2. Motivational Interviewing (MI)---William Miller
Asking the right questions; “Tell me about a period when you were doing well?”
Smoking: on a scale of 1-10 to give up smoking, where are you now?
MI Steps to enhance motivation:
Express empathy
Develop discrepancy
Avoid argumentation
Roll with resistance
Support self-efficacy

31. 3. Solution focused therapy
Miracle question
The personal narrative
Scaling questions
Coping questions

32. 4. Narrative Therapy
Therapist works to uncover evidence of past competence
Help in rewriting a “new life story”
Group work to discourage stories of problems and failures

33. Traditional Treatment:
Detox—opportunity to introduce patient to choices
Outpatient—primarily group counseling
Inpatient and halfway houses
Aftercare once a month, may be 12 Step group or religious activity

34. Substance Misuse, Dependence, and the Body
Part II BIOLOGY
Chapter 4
Substance Misuse, Dependence, and the Body

35. Recent Trends PET scans, fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging
Craving research
New facts on brain damage

36. Depressants Alcohol
Figure 4.1—alcohol involvement: 39% of those in prison for violence; 39% of traffic fatalities;67% in domestic violence, 40% in rape; 72% date rape; 50% child abuse and neglect; 23% of suicide.
Father Martin- -Chalk Talks:
Jocose drunk, amorose, bellicose, lachrymose drunks
Others: somnos drunk, (sleepy) clamorose, (loud), scientose (know it all)

37. Alcohol continued Health effects—heart
7-10% of drinkers get addicted. Signs: tolerance, withdrawal (tremors, nausea), heavy nicotine, caffeine use
Tolerance reversal
.4 B.A.C. may be comatose.
Blackouts: common at .3 BAC, case in Tom Sawyer
Real court cases

38. Drinking Rates in Liters of Alcohol
Iran— 0.0
India—.82
Cube—3.65
Mexico—4.62
Norway—5.81
Japan—7.38
U.S.—8.51
Some have high consumption
with few problems.
Italy—9.14
Greece—9.30
UK—10.39
Denmark—11.93
France—13.54
Ireland—14.45

39. Narcotics
Opiates—from opium poppy…narcotics, heroin now can be smoked or snorted
Inhalants—household products, huffing, brain damage, coma
Misuse of pain medication increasing today
OxyContin

40. Stimulants
Cocaine-crack and powder, in urine 8 hrs., smoked for faster high.
Brain blocks reuptake of dopamine… Addicted rats die… heart attack.
Amphetamines and meth—synthetic unlike cocaine—suppresses appetite.
Powder can be snorted, injected. Stay awake for long durations…
Anhedonia---inability to feel pleasure with drug-induced brain injury.

41. Nicotine
Can both stimulate and relax % of alcoholics smoke, reduces alcohol effects. Over ½ of schizophrenics smoke.
Nicotine decreases BAC levels.
Malachy McCourt smoked for ad and got hooked.
Box 4.1 “To Die for a Cigarette”
Case of chewing tobacco—snuff

42. Hallucinogens Plants, LSD, synthetic, flashbacks, PCP
Ecstasy and roofies—heightens sensory experience…raves..
Can’t get back to original high due to brain changes.
10% in high school have used Ecstasy.
Dance Safe – harm reduction strategies.
Roofies:--sleeping pill in Europe.

43. What Is Ecstasy?
Ecstasy is a drug that has some hallucinogenic properties and is structurally related to amphetamines. Its short form chemical name is MDMA (3,4- methylenedioxymetham-phetamine).
Split

44. Short Term Effects of Ecstasy
Feeling of confidence
Sense of arousal
Increased heart rate
Dry and sore mouth/throat
Tension, High Body Temperature
Muscle twitching
Depression & Confusion

45. Long Term Effects of Ecstasy
Liver damage
Anxiety disorders
Irregular heartbeats
Brain damage
Depression
Confusion
Paranoia

46. Cannabis
Marijuana
THC, the psychoactive ingredient, lowers blood glucose, increases appetite, Stored in fat cells, long term use possibly associated with apathy.
Earlier reports of lung cancer after long-term use were not validated.

47. Costs to Get High Estimates Differ by Region
Crack: $5-10 quick fix only lasts 30 min.
Heroin: $ day--$20 day can by maintenance dose inject a couple of times
Ecstasy: $10-20 may take 5 or so pills.
Meth: $25 long-lasting high, popular in gay party scene in Seattle, factory workers in Iowa
Marijuana: $25 or higher, depends on quality

48. Metabolism
Liver: organ that metabolizes alcohol, alcohol circulates in the bloodstream until metabolized.
Men have special enzymes help. People metabolize ½ oz. Per hour = small glass of wine….1 BAC=1/1000 parts blood.
Acetaldehyde and Antabuse
Flushing in Asians
Multiplying effect of 2 sedatives.
Tylenol plus Alcohol >liver failure.
Valium is used to bring one down from cocaine (ex. Robert Downey).

49. Brain Regions and Their Functions

50. The Brain and Addiction
Neurotransmitters affect emotions and memory

51. Neurotransmitters Affect Emotions and Memory
Dopamine—reuptake affected by cocaine, which blocks dopamine synapse
Depletion following cocaine use. Nicotine affects dopamine too.
Parkinson’s when too little. Dopamine-boosting drugs for Parkinson’s associated with mania and gambling behavior.
Too much dopamine associated with schizophrenia
Serotonin: influenced by alcohol, involved in sleep. Decreased levels linked to depression, anxiety, impulsiveness suicide.

52. Depletion following cocaine use. Nicotine affects dopamine too
Depletion following cocaine use. Nicotine affects dopamine too. The right scan is taken from someone who is on cocaine. The loss of red areas in the right scan compared to the left (normal) scan indicates that the brain is using less glucose and therefore is less active. This reduction in activity results in disruption of many brain functions.

53. Memory and Craving
Addict never gets original high—brain has changed. Addiction is a brain disease.
Cues can trigger memory…picture of alcoholic beverages activates certain areas of the brain.
Prozac reduces craving by regulating serotonin levels.

54. Cocaine in the Brain
Slides are from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (

55. The Role of Genes
Study of mental hospitals, prisons, 50% who used chemical substances had mental disorders.
Cloninger—Sweden..259 male adoptees with alcoholic fathers
Type 1: late onset..75% of alcoholics, relates to harm avoidance, anxiety, guilt
Type 2: risk taker, (starts about age 11) male, hyperactive, antisocial, hereditary
Ondansetron: works on Serotonin, little effect on type 1
Twins: 40-60% concurrence of alcoholism. Separated at birth monkeys drank more under stress, people with low dopamine like stimulants
People with ADHD risk for drug abuse.

56. Medical Consequences Wernicke Korsakoff:
Cases reported of Dr. Oliver Sachs
Peripheral neuropathy related to lack of Vitamin B
Confabulation….Dr. Sachs—Awakenings
Liver damage…removes toxins from blood, bile circulates in blood stream
Yellow skin tone, cirrhosis, immune system breakdown.
Heart – nicotine, cocaine
Fetal alcohol syndrome. See photographs in text.

57. Interventions Related to Biology
Chapter 5
Interventions Related to Biology

58. Schick Shadel Seattle treatment center
Conditioning or aversion therapy
Interview with administrator explains use of truth serum, etc.

59. Changing Brain Chemistry
Brain Lock (Schwartz) cognitive treatment for OCD to “rewire the brain”
Ondansetron—decreases craving
Zyban and smoking; Chantix helps person produce more dopamine.
Nicotine gum; patch.
Naltrexone, approved 1995, not a narcotic unlike methadone.
Blocks receptors for getting high.

60. Synthetic Prescription Drugs
Methadone (synthetic form of heroin);
Methadone maintenance
Heroin maintenance in Britain, Switzerland.
Buprenorphine can be prescribed by GP’s, reduces likelihood of overdose
Eating disorders and dopamine
Bulimics—related to depression
Anorexia—anxiety
Luvox decreases binges.

61. Holistic Treatments Herbal remedies St. John’s wort Hypnosis
Acupuncture from China
Massage therapy
Physical exercise to reduce tension

62. Assessment
Need for assessment forms to be sensitive to gender/cultural differences
Language differences, e.g., the word craving hard to translate
CAGE and TWEAK work well with women

63. CAGE Have you tried Cutting down? Have people Annoyed you?
Have you felt Guilty about your ATOD use?
Have you ever used ATOD as an Eye opener?

64. TWEAK Tolerance Worried Eye Openers Amnesia Kut down
Works well with mixed ethnic populations

65. Other Screening Forms AUDIT developed by WHO for alcohol use
NIAAA—50 item instrument, Inventory of Drug Use Consequences, in public domain
WHO designated areas of harm caused by drink—physical, emotional, health, family, finances, etc.

66. UAs Raises ethical questions
Inconsistent with harm reduction, MI, strengths-based models, according to the text
Sweat patch a less invasive form of testing

67. Strengths-Based Assessment
Focus not on pattern of use, negatives
Emphasis on client choice, soliciting positive information
Note periods of using less, times of abstinence, family rituals.
“What has endured in your life despite substance use?”

68. Work with Homeless
Housing First programs, harm reduction, for persons with co-occurring disorders
“Sober housing” no more effective in preventing harmful drug use
Motivational strategies helpful

69. Group Work Early stage: when physiological stress
Develop group norms; sets rules,
Intervene when:
- all-or-nothing thinking
-one person monopolizes group
-it turns into a gripe session
Exercises to help people find strengths:
-Cards: I feel happy when, scared when, etc.
-3 minute feeling level exercises

70. End of Chapter 5 and Part II