About Diet | Nutrition as a Key to Brain Health | Recovery
Diet | Nutrition are a key to brain health | recovery from addiction. Brain health is a key element of addiction recovery because addiction (whether to drugs or alcohol) is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease. As I’ve mentioned in other posts, nutrition is one of the four key “things” a person can do to…
Read MoreDual Diagnosis | Co Occurring Disorders – Status of Treatment in U.S.
Dual Diagnosis | Co Occurring Disorders – what do these terms mean? How are they treated? A dual diagnosis | co-occurring disorders is the name of the diagnosis given when a person has both a mental illness and an addiction. According to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), 50-75% of Americans who seek treatment…
Read MoreBrain Damage in Sports – New Research, Devastating Risks
Brain damage in sports – what does this have to do with substance abuse and addiction? Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease – anything that changes the brain is worth understanding for the brain controls everything we think, feel, say and do. In this particular post, I am talking about brain damage in…
Read MoreContinuing Care – the Equally Important 3rd Phase of Addiction Treatment & Recovery
Continuing care – the equally important and often neglected 3rd phase of addiction treatment. This sentence in Abigail Sullivan Moore’s January 20, 2012, article, “A Bridge to Recovery on Campus,” appearing on NewYorkTimes.com, really grabbed my attention: “….Until recently, public policy focused on prevention and treatment. “We never talked about recovery as a kind of…
Read MoreDetach With Love? You’ve Got to be Kidding!
Detach with love? You’ve got to be kidding! At least this was my reaction when first presented with this concept years ago. Detachment | Detach With Love I’ve been in a number of situations lately where my heart went out to the wives, husbands, children and parents of alcoholics and drug addicts who were brand…
Read MorePTSD and the Sleep Connection
PTSD and sleep – why is this connection important to understand? Given mental illness (of which PTSD is one) is one of the five key risk factors for developing an addiction and that sleep (the peaceful, restful kind) is one of the key things a person can do to heal their brain from an addiction,…
Read MoreThe First Step — The First Truth
The following is a guest post by Tim Cheney, who has been in long-term recovery for over 30 years, and shares his thoughts on the first step of AA. Tim is co-founder and managing partner of Chooper’s Guide, a web-based substance abuse and addiction treatment and information resource. Tim has been in long-term recovery for…
Read MoreProblem Teens | Teen Help | Parents Searching the Internet
Problem teens can send parents to the Internet in search of help – whether it’s with their teen’s sudden attitude change, dropping grades, suspected substance misuse or withdrawal from the family. The following is a guest post by Sue Scheff, author, parent advocate, and founder of P.U.R.E. (Parent’s Universal Resource Experts, Inc.), an organization helping…
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