Family Disease of Addiction – Expand Health Care to Treat Both Sides
Treatment of the family disease of addiction would greatly benefit if treatment for both sides – the family AND the addict | alcoholic – were FULLY covered under health care insurance. Why? Because one often contributes to the other and both contribute to the continuance of the cycle, passing it from one generation to the next.…
Read MoreIntroducing – In the Name of the Son by Declan Duggan
In the Name of the Son is a powerful new book by Declan Duggan whose son, Kevin, was just 19 when he died in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK, on Saturday evening, 31st October 1998. Kevin had unwittingly accepted a ride from a drunk driver. According to Declan, the local police force reported there was no suspicion…
Read MoreWhy Continue Until Substance Abuse Treatment is Necessary
Would you wait to treat stage 1 cancer until it progresses to stage 4? Of course not. So why would you continue problematic drug or alcohol use until substance abuse treatment is necessary? Let’s think of this from another angle. If someone is complaining about your substance use, there’s a problem. Period. It’s that simple. “How?”…
Read MoreEating Disorders and Substance Use
Eating disorders and substance use often co-occur. To explain why and more, please find the following guest post by Adrienne Ressler, LMSW, CEDS, and Vice President, Professional Development at The Renfrew Center Foundation, which was established in 1990 due to the strong need for public and professional awareness regarding anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. Today,…
Read MoreThe One Key Fact About Addiction You’ll Most Want to Know
There is one key fact about addiction that can help both the addict | alcoholic and their family members and friends. This fact is the 21st century definition of addiction, namely: Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease. Addiction has long been referred to as a disease, but the addition of the words, “chronic,…
Read MoreWould a Lower Drinking Age Solve the Underage Drinking Problem
There is a perception in America that the cause of underage binge drinking is the drinking age. The perception continues that the Europeans do not have the problems with underage binge drinking on par with American youth because the Europeans have “taught” their youth to drink from an early age, and they don’t hold alcohol…
Read MoreImpaired Driving Prevention – 3 Things to Know
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month is celebrated annually in December, and the message is simple – “Don’t Drive Impaired.” So why is it that after a night of partying a person can think, “It’s only a few blocks, I can drive.” Or after dinner out, a person can say, “What’s the big deal? She’s only…
Read MoreLimit Media Time | Protect Your Child’s Developing Brain – AAP
Avoid media time – including TV, computer, phone or other electronic devices – for toddlers and infants under age two and limit it to under two hours/day for children and teens is the recommendation of the American Academy of Pediatrics. I can’t even imagine what it would be like raising a child in today’s media…
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