Prevention | Intervention
Signs of Heroin Addiction
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “In 2011, 4.2 million Americans aged 12 or older (or 1.6 percent) had used heroin at least once in their lives. It is estimated that about 23 percent of individuals who use heroin become dependent on it.” (NIDA: DrugFacts-Heroin) To help readers know the signs of…
Read MoreHow Do You Get Someone to Stop Drinking – CRAFT – an Intervention Alternative Explained
How do you get someone to stop drinking or abusing drugs? Can you even do it? Don’t they have to hit bottom first? And where is the bottom? And if it’s your child, how do you ever walk away or set a boundary that could mean they don’t go to college in the fall or…
Read MoreAddiction Relapse | Death By Addiction – Let’s Honor Corey Monteith By…
Addiction relapse | death by addiction. It’s tragic. It’s unacceptable. It’s stoppable. Yes – stoppable. Cory Monteith lost his life to the RELAPSING brain disease of addiction on Saturday, July 13, 2014. But Cory was not the only one who died of this disease or an accidental overdose of drugs and/or alcohol that day. In…
Read MoreMatthew Perry and All Rise Advocate for Drug Courts
Drug Courts provide a phenomenal service to the non-violent offender, their family and society as a whole. How? Because they treat the root cause of the problem – drug addiction. Given addiction is now scientifically understood to be a chronic, often relapsing – but entirely treatable – brain disease, it is little wonder an addict…
Read MoreWhy Is There Depression If We Can Control Our Thoughts
Why is there depression if we are supposedly able to control our feelings by changing our thoughts? This question struck me this week as I grappled with my own several days of feeling sad, blue, kinda lost, asking myself, “What am I doing?” It started off on the heals of a few days of some…
Read MoreUsing Hypnotherapy to Change Drinking Patterns
Using hypnotherapy to change drinking patterns is not usually one of the first options a person considers. But there is no one-size-fits all when it comes to changing alcohol abuse patterns or treating | recovering from alcoholism. So how can hypnotherapy help with a drinking problem? To answer this question, please find this guest post…
Read MoreGive Their Brain a Break | Underage Drinking Prevention
This year, I am focusing on Underage Drinking Prevention in celebration of SAMHSA’s National Prevention Week 2013 – “Your voice. Your choice. Make a Difference.” SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) is the sponsoring organization for this national celebration and, as usual, has created an arsenal of resources and toolkit materials for each…
Read MoreUnderstanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle | Interview with Leslie Carol Botha, WHE
Understanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle and how it interacts with drugs and alcohol is the subject of my interview with Internationally Recognized Expert on Hormones and Behavior and author, Leslie Carol Botha, WHE. Leslie is also the publisher of the Holy Hormones Journal and host of the Holy Hormones Honey Radio Program, on…
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