Substance dependence is a prevalent and urgent public health problem. In 2021, 60 million
Americans reported abusing alcohol within the month prior to being surveyed, and nearly 20 …

Only a small minority of people with substance use disorders (SUDs) receive treatment. A
focus on abstinence is pervasive in SUD treatment, defining success in both research and …

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street
by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.Juliette, a woman …

This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting
evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 …

Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration (PHRI) is a transtheoretical and
transdiagnostic clinical approach to working with patients who are using or considering …

Social cognitive theory (SCT; Bandura 1986) has become a fundamental resource in
clinical, educational, social, developmental, health, and personality psychology. It has been …

Health‐compromising behaviors such as physical inactivity and poor dietary habits are
difficult to change. Most social‐cognitive theories assume that an individual's intention to …

Scientific interest in “food addiction” is growing, but the topic remains controversial. One
critique of “food addiction” is its high degree of phenotypic overlap with binge eating …

Over 2% of US children under the age of 18—more than 1,700,000 children—have a parent
in prison. These children experience very real disadvantages when compared to their peers …

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other"
disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned …