Want to Get Through to Teens – Talk to Their Brain
Want to Get Through to Teens – Talk to Their Brain – really! In my decade of research and writing on brain development and the brain disease of addiction, understanding the whole story about puberty and the brain’s evolution [see Image 2 below] gave me the pieces that finally completed the puzzle on how/why teens…
Read MoreThe War on Drugs – It’s Not Working
The War on Drugs as we know it, today, “officially” began in 1973 when with passage of New York’s strict sentencing guidelines “known as the ‘Rockefeller drug laws’ — after their champion, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller — that put even low-level criminals behind bars for decades,” according to Brian Mann’s NPR story, today, “The Drug Laws…
Read MoreLooking for Effective Addiction Treatment?
Looking for Effective Addiction Treatment? Check out Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment – and How to Get Help That Works, a new book released February 7, 2013, by Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D. I’d first learned of Anne Fletcher’s new book in Jane E. Brody’s compelling article, “Effective Addiction Treatment,” appearing February…
Read MorePrescription Drug Abuse – They’re Everywhere!
Prescription drug abuse – especially among young people – is rampant given the rise in availability of prescription drugs. [NIDA provides a website on prescription drugs written especially for teens: Facts on Prescription Drugs.] The following is a guest post by Hyrum Taffer, a freelance writer on drug addiction and recovery issues for DrugRehab.org. Through…
Read MoreChildren of Alcoholics – National Celebration
Children of Alcoholics – a national celebration, February 10 – 16, 2013, and an international celebration the same week. Why a national and international celebration? To raise awareness about what happens to the silent victims of a parent’s chronic, often relapsing brain disease – alcoholism. Before I continue, let me first say – the purpose…
Read MoreChildren of Alcoholics – New Book for Tweens Can Help
Children of alcoholics experience trauma that is little understood by those who have not grown up in a home with a parent who has the untreated disease of alcoholism. If you are unfamiliar with this concept or would like more information, this link to Coping With an Alcoholic Parent and this to the National Association…
Read MoreWhen a Loved One Drinks Too Much
When a loved one drinks too much, the world can get pretty upside down. The very thought that there are actually things we can do to feel better can be so difficult to hope for, let alone believe. This is especially the case if a person has been grappling with a loved one’s drinking behaviors…
Read MoreRecovery From Codependency
Recovery from codependency? What is codependency? And what is codependency recovery all about? The following is a reprint of Darlene Lancer’s post of the same name first appearing on Psych Central, “Recovery from Codependency.” Darlene Lancer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and author of How To Speak Your Mind – Become Assertive and…
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