Childhood Trauma — The Invisible Type

Childhood trauma – the invisible type – is something we need to better understand given childhood trauma is one of the five key risk factors for developing an addiction. Please find the following guest post from Art Smukler, MD: Hello Everyone, It’s a pleasure to be back on Lisa Frederiksen‘s wonderful blogsite. Since Childhood Trauma…

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How Physical Therapy Can Help Recovering Addicts

The following is a guest post by Brenda Lawrence describing how physical therapy can help recovering addicts. Brenda is physical therapist whose specialties include rehabilitation and weight loss. She created Physical TherapyAide.org in 2010, as a resource website for students interested in a career as a physical therapy aide. Drugs and alcohol can have a destructive…

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The Tradeoff

The following is a guest post from Monkeytraps: A blog about control, which has two authors: Steve Hauptman, LCSW, and Bert. (If you’re new to Monkeytraps, Steve is a therapist who specializes in control issues, and Bert is his control-addicted inner monkey.) If you’re new to Monkeytraps, Steve is a therapist who specializes in control issues, and Bert is his…

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Continuing Care | Important to Addiction Recovery

Continuing care must be a part of addiction recovery. Why? It’s the third phase of the disease treatment model, and addiction is a disease. How? By its simplest definition, a disease is something that changes cells in a negative way. Addiction changes cells in the brain, which is what makes addiction a chronic, often relapsing…

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