Prevention | Intervention
Adverse Childhood Experiences – Dr. Nadine Burke Harris Revolutionizing Pediatric Medicine
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris’s TEDMED Talk on how childhood trauma – Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) – affects health across a lifetime is remarkable. I urge readers of this blog to view her 15 minute video because childhood trauma is one of the key risk factors for developing a substance use disorder. Revolutionizing Pediatric Medicine to Recognize…
Read MoreWhen Caring Too Much is Bad | Darlene Lancer
Caring too much? Is it even possible when worried about a loved one’s drinking or drug use and what that loved one is doing to themselves and others? Here to help us understand this dynamic and what to do about it is Darlene Lancer, author of Codependency for Dummies and Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the…
Read MoreAddiction is a Family Disease | S.O.B.E.R. Tells One Family’s Story
It’s not uncommon in discussions about the disease of addiction to focus on the person with this brain disease. But addiction is a family disease because interactions with the person developing the disease [addiction is a developmental disease] affects every member of a family as they try their best to help the person stop. Today’s…
Read MoreFallout of Addiction – Breaking the Cycle | Gary Topley
As you may recall in a previous post by one of our guest bloggers writing about breaking the cycles of addiction, I opened her post with the following: “Breaking the cycle of addiction is greatly helped when a person understands two key things: 1) addiction is a chronic, often relapsing, developmental brain disease, and 2) there…
Read MoreGrandparents Raising Grandchildren of Addicted Parents
There are many reasons grandparents find themselves raising their grandchildren. This article is specifically for grandparents raising grandchildren of addicted parents. In other words, they’ve stepped up because their own adult child is incapable of raising their own child as a result of their addiction. I’m writing this because the ramifications for all concerned – grandparents,…
Read MoreToxic Shame | Guest Author Darlene Lancer
Toxic shame – sometimes called Internalized Shame – is typically at the root of codependency or addiction. Here to help us understand this dynamic and what to do about it is Darlene Lancer, author of Codependency for Dummies and Conquering Shame and Codependency: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You. Darlene’s latest eBook is titled, Spiritual Transformation in the Twelve…
Read MoreCollateral Damage of Addiction | Family and Friends
When it comes to addiction treatment, recovery, prevention, intervention… it’s common to focus on the drinker or the drug user. It’s estimated there are more than 23 million Americans who struggle with the brain disease of addiction, of which only 10% are getting the help they need. What’s little understood is that more than 100…
Read MoreBeing the Designated Driver Doesn’t Necessarily Mean You’re Safe
We are closing in on the end of December’s National Impaired Driving Prevention Month and heading for one of the biggest drinking nights of the year – New Year’s Eve. So it’s a good time to remind ourselves that just because a person steps up to be the designated driver for a carful of tipsy passengers doesn’t necessarily mean…
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