Why the Secondhand Drinking – Adverse Childhood Experiences Connection Matters

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Why is it so important to understand the secondhand drinking – adverse childhood experiences connection? Because experiencing secondhand drinking as a child most often results in adverse childhood experiences for that child. And experiencing adverse childhood experiences can result in toxic-stress related physical and emotional health consequences across one’s lifetime. Two of the outcomes of…

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Which One Is the Addict?

Which one is the addict? Can you tell? Here to share her opinion on this question is guest author, MaryBeth Cichocki. She a registered nurse living in the state of Delaware and lost her youngest son, Matt, to an overdose of prescription drugs on January 3rd 2015. After his death she was unable to return…

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National Recovery Month 2018

September is National Recovery Month. It is a national celebration coordinated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA). The objective of this annual celebration is to increase awareness and understanding of mental disorders and substance use disorders and celebrate the individuals living in recovery. National Recovery Month – A Critically Important Objective “Only…

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BreakingTheCycles.com 10 Year Anniversary | Sharing Favorite Posts

BreakingTheCycles.com 10 year anniversary — its hard for me to believe it’s already been 10 years! I started BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 to provide education, prevention and intervention information and services rooted in 21st Century brain science for a range of addiction-related concerns, including: substance abuse, mental illness, addiction* as a brain disease, secondhand drinking, toxic stress,…

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Online Addiction Treatment

Online addiction treatment – seriously? Yes, seriously. As the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) explains in its publication, “Principles of Effective Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide, “No single treatment is appropriate for everyone,” which brings us to the topic of today’s post explaining online addiction treatment by guest author, Kali Lux. Kali is in…

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Many Paths to Recovery – Guest Author Peter L

The journey through addiction treatment and recovery takes time, and that’s because it is a chronic disease — a chronic brain disease because of the way it changes brain health and function. As with other chronic diseases, relapse is possible because there is no single way to treat the disease of addiction (aka severe substance…

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Why Treating ACEs Helps With Addiction Recovery

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Treating ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) can go a long, long way to helping a person with addiction (aka, with a substance use disorder) succeed in long-term recovery. Why? Because of the role ACEs play in changing a child’s brain wiring and mapping, making that child’s brain more susceptible to the key risk factors for developing a…

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Thoughts on Disease and Recovery – Addiction and Cancer

Disease and Recovery – most people do not understand addiction to be a chronic disease like other chronic diseases. In today’s guest post, John M McNamara shares his thoughts on disease and recovery – his own (cancer) and his wife’s (addiction) – to emphasize his point that addiction is a disease, as is cancer, and that…

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