Substance Addiction

Dr. O'Riordan began working in drug and alcohol treatment at San Jose Hospital and continued keep up-dated in current treatment approaches by attending many seminars and lectures on the subject. His approach is helping the person to be connected to a treatment program, support group, sponsor while receiving psychotherapy.

Chemical dependency continues to be a severe problem for families and communities. Treatment for children, adolescents and adults is very important for recovery, as well as attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and a Twelve-Step program with a sponsor.

            Contact Dr. O'Riordan's by telephone at (650) 948-9989,
or by email at tubrid@stanford.edu

 

Twelve Step Programs

Alcoholics Anonymous (650) 342-2615 (408) 374-8511, http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/

Al-Anon (650) 873-2366, (408) 379-1051, http://www.al-anon-alateen.org/

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (817) 268-6233, http://www.madd.org/

Narcotics Anonymouswww.nida.nih.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html

Self Management and Recovery Training SMART Recovery (866) 951-5357, http://www.smartrecovery.org/

The Camp (Adolescents), Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz County, California (877) 557-6237, (800) 924-2879, www.camprecovery.com

 

 

Brown, S. (1995). Treating the alcoholic. J. Wiley, New York.

Denning, Patt., et al. (2004). Over the influence: The harm reduction guide for managing drugs and alcohol. The Guilford Press, New York.

di Clemente, Carlo C. (2003). Addiction and change: How addictions develop and addicted people recover. Guilford, New York.

Humphreys, Keith. (2003). Circles of recovery: Self-help organization for addiction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Swanson, Anita. (2005). Slow hope. Ivy House, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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