Rethinking Drinking: Dr. William R. Miller and Dr. Ricardo Muñoz on 50 Years of Alcohol Use Research

Dr. William R. Miller was a developer of motivational interviewing. Ricardo Muñoz ran the first randomized controlled trial ever built to prevent depression before it starts. Fifty years ago, as grad students sharing a rickety office at the University of Oregon, they wrote the first version of a book that would go on to prove something the addiction field didn't believe: that self-help alone, with no therapist, could cut problem drinking by the same margin as live counseling. They joined toda...