Prevention | Intervention
Why 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 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 MoreDrinking During Pregnancy – Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Drinking during pregnancy can result in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), which are a group – a spectrum – of conditions that can occur in a child whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. This spectrum ranges from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) to Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAEs) to Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND) to Alcohol-Related Birth Defects…
Read MoreAddiction Treatment and Recovery – Move Well | Eat Well | Think Well
Addiction treatment and recovery – Move well | Eat well | Think well — these three elements – moving, eating and thinking well form the basis of Dr. Herby Bell’s brainchild, Blueprint for Recovery™. Dr. Bell is a Chiropractor, Recovery Coach and Founder of Recovery Health Care (RHC), offering continuing care for people in addiction…
Read MoreQuestions About Alcohol and Drugs – NowWeKnow Offers Better Answers
Questions about alcohol and drugs? Introducing NowWeKnow – a new FREE app providing better answers to common questions about Alcohol Abuse | Drug Addiction Treatment | Marijuana Use by Teens | Secondhand Drinking | Mental Illness | Substance Abuse Prevention | Codependency | Underage Drinking and more. Better answers? Yes. Why better? Because they are…
Read MoreIncarcerating Drug Offenders | How’s That Working?
The United States has roughly 5% of the world’s population. It has approximately 25% of it’s prison population. Nearly one half the nation’s prisoners are serving time for drug related crimes. Clearly something’s about incarcerating drug offenders isn’t working. Thanks to new brain and addiction-related research of the recent 10-15 years, it’s now understood that…
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