Having a Hard Time Controlling Your Drinking – Consider Soberistas.com
Are you having a hard time controlling your drinking? Let me introduce you to a group I’ve just learned of – Soberistas.com. I found them through an article one of my readers shared, “7 Reasons Why Life is Better Without Booze,” by Lucy Rocca, who, it turns out, is the founder of the website Soberistas.com.…
Read MoreHow to Find a Drug Testing Center
Don’t know how to find a drug testing center? Following up on her January 8th guest post, Drug Testing Methods, Lena Butler shares her latest guest post on how to find a federally certified or accredited drug testing center. Lena is a health blogger and customer service representative for TestCountry, a San Diego based point of service diagnostic…
Read MoreAlcohol Screening and Brief Counseling – Helps Screen Alcohol Misuse & Secondhand Drinking
It’s with great excitement that I announce and share the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 2014 Alcohol Screening and Brief Counseling guidelines, along with NIAAA’s (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) Single Question Screen. I’m particularly excited about how easily these can be used by health care professionals to assess and help both “sides” of…
Read MoreTreating the Brain for Addiction and Secondhand Drinking Recovery
Many readers would be a bit surprised to realize the smartphone wasn’t introduced until 2007 or that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube have all been introduced since 2004. In fact, we’ve seen a veritable explosion in social networking opportunities this past decade – all possible thanks to new technologies, brilliant minds and funding…
Read MoreDrug Testing Methods
Most people hear “drug test” and instantly think of people peeing into a cup, and for good reason. Most drug testing programs do use urine as the primary way to test for drugs. However, there are other ways to do it. Guest author, Lena Butler, describes the most common drug testing methods, their differences, similarities…
Read MoreImportant Questions to Ask a Teen Addiction Treatment Program
It wasn’t until the past 15-20 years that neuroscientists have had the technology they’ve needed to understand the inner workings of the brain – how it develops, how it’s harmed, what mental illness does to it, what addiction does to it, how it looks after substance abuse is stopped and addiction and/or mental illness are…
Read More7 Sound Bites to Update 2014 Conversations Around Addiction
If you are like the millions of Americans, you may have some long-held beliefs about addiction; beliefs like, “he has to hit bottom in order to get help,” “fix the addict and the family will be fine,” “no way is alcoholism is a disease – cancer is a disease – all s/he has to do…
Read MoreHow to Get Someone to Stop Drinking So Much
Drinking problems often seem to worsen around the holidays, or at least become more obvious, as families gather for extended periods of time and observe drinking behaviors that are too awful and/or too often to ignore or excuse. And then the questions and discussions pick up, again, centered around the search question, “How to get…
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