Using Neuroscience to Help With Long-Term Recovery | Re-Wiring The Brain
Using neuroscience to help with long-term recovery makes sense when we understand the brain impacts of addiction.
Using neuroscience to help with long-term recovery – understanding how we can re-wire the brain.
I was honored to be interviewed on this subject by Mary Woods as a guest on the Westbridge Voice America Show, “One Hour at a Time.” The title of the program is “Re-wiring the Brain – Understanding Neural Science and Its Contribution to Long-term Recovery for Both the Drug Addict/Alcoholic and the Family.”
The program covered the following topics:
Empowering drug addicts/alcoholics and their family members with the knowledge and belief in their ability to re-wire and thereby control their brains – what they think, feel, say and do opens a new approach to long-term recovery and relapse prevention, especially in conjunction with Contractual Continuing Care Plans (CCCPs). Hearing about 21st century brain and addiction-related research, shared in simple, easy-to-understand terms, explains how/why the brains of drug addicts/alcoholics are hijacked by addiction; how/why family members’ brains are hijacked by chronic stress activation of the fight-or-flight system; and equally important, how/why the underlying role of brain development and key Risk Factors can be instrumental in unlocking one’s individualized treatment/recovery path. In this manner, all concerned better understand the power of the brain and how to use that power – as an individual, as a participant in a relationship, as an integrated family following treatment.
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