Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy – Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), which are a group of conditions. These conditions may include: abnormal facial features, growth problems, and central nervous system (CNS) problems, or problems with learning, memory, attention span, communication, vision, or hearing. Often children with FASDs have a hard time in school and trouble…
Read MoreBreakingTheCycles.com 10 Year Anniversary | Sharing Favorite Posts
BreakingTheCycles.com 10 year anniversary — its hard for me to believe it’s already been 10 years! I started BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 to provide education, prevention and intervention information and services rooted in 21st Century brain science for a range of addiction-related concerns, including: substance abuse, mental illness, addiction* as a brain disease, secondhand drinking, toxic stress,…
Read MoreAlcohol’s Harm to Others | Secondhand Drinking
Alcohol’s Harm to Others | Secondhand Drinking are two terms that identify the very real, health-harming, quality-of-life impacts that a person’s drinking has on others. Secondhand Drinking is a term I coined in 2009 to raise awareness about the negative impacts a person’s drinking behaviors has on others. Drinking behaviors include: verbal, physical, emotional abuse; neglect; blackouts; unplanned/unwanted…
Read MoreOnline Addiction Treatment
Online addiction treatment – seriously? Yes, seriously. As the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) explains in its publication, “Principles of Effective Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide, “No single treatment is appropriate for everyone,” which brings us to the topic of today’s post explaining online addiction treatment by guest author, Kali Lux. Kali is in…
Read MoreTriggers and the Codependency Connection | Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT
Part of what keeps a person in relationship with a loved one who has a substance use disorder are their own triggers. Triggers can be thoughts, feelings or emotions triggered by another person’s behaviors or shaming words. Darlene Lancer, a frequent guest blogger on BreakingTheCycles.com, helps readers understand triggers and the codependency connection and what a…
Read MoreHow Medicare Covers Substance Abuse
How medicare covers substance abuse is an important topic given that “[a]lcohol and drug problems, particularly prescription drug abuse, among older adults is one of the fastest growing health problems facing the country,” according to The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD). Today’s guest author, Danielle Kinkle Roberst, explains how one might use…
Read MoreMany Paths to Recovery – Guest Author Peter L
The journey through addiction treatment and recovery takes time, and that’s because it is a chronic disease — a chronic brain disease because of the way it changes brain health and function. As with other chronic diseases, relapse is possible because there is no single way to treat the disease of addiction (aka severe substance…
Read MoreUnderstanding Codependency – Do You Have to Lose Yourself to Love Someone
Understanding codependency can help you appreciate that you do not have to lose yourself in order to love someone. To help readers better understand this concept, Darlene Lancer, JD, MFT, shares the following post, originally appearing on her blog under the title, “Do I Have to Lose Me to Love You?” To read her longer…
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