Managing Your Substance Use Disorder Client Workbook

Managing Your Substance Use Disorder: Client Workbook is an interactive recovery guide that engages readers who have a substance use disorder in an active process of learning strategies to manage the daily challenges of sobriety and recovery and to reduce the risk of lapse and relapse. Designed to accompany Managing Substance Use Disorder: Practitioner Guide, this Workbook provides detailed information about substances of use, reader-friendly checklists, and engaging activities in order to personalize the reader's recovery plan. The book then reviews current trends in substance use and disorders, causes and effects of these disorders, substance related disorders, treatment approaches (medications and psychosocial), mutual support programs, and the impact of substance use on the family and concerned significant others, and integrates the best scientifically-supported interventions with the authors' extensive experiences as scientist-clinicians. This Workbook addresses the most common challenges faced by individuals with substance use disorders, such as managing cravings, resisting social pressures to use, coping with negative emotions and moods, building a social support network, involving family or concerned significant others, and reducing lapse and relapse risk.

Dennis C. Daley, PhD is Sr. Clinical Director of Substance Use Services in the Behavioral Health Integration Division at the UPMC Insurance Division. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Daley has been involved in clinical care, research, and teaching about addiction for nearly 40 years. Dr. Daley previously served for 14 years as Chief of Addiction Medicine Services at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC), and 11 years as the Director and Principal Investigator of the Appalachian Tri-State (ATS) Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network, housed at WPIC. He published the first book in the U.S. for counselors, and the first recovery workbooks for individuals and families on substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders. He was also one of the first in the US to publish interactive workbooks on recovery from addiction. Dr. Daley has over 400 publications, which include books, chapters, articles, and recovery guides. He has also published material for children on understanding substance use problems.

Antoine Douaihy, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also serves as the senior academic director of Addiction Medicine Services and director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Western Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He has a well-established career in patient care/advocacy, education, training, and research in the areas of motivational inter. He and Dr. Daley have worked together for 20 years providing clinical services, conducting clinical research, teaching and mentoring healthcare practitioners and medical trainees, and publishing. In recognition for his dedication to an academic career, Dr. Douaihy has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and The Charles Watson Teaching Award, recognizing him for the qualities of a masterful clinician, academician, caretaker of his patients, educator, mentor, and contributor to the medical school community and community at large.