Addiction | Substance Use Disorders | Treatment
How to Find a Drug Testing Center
Don’t know how to find a drug testing center? Following up on her January 8th guest post, Drug Testing Methods, Lena Butler shares her latest guest post on how to find a federally certified or accredited drug testing center. Lena is a health blogger and customer service representative for TestCountry, a San Diego based point of service diagnostic…
Read MoreTreating the Brain for Addiction and Secondhand Drinking Recovery
Many readers would be a bit surprised to realize the smartphone wasn’t introduced until 2007 or that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube have all been introduced since 2004. In fact, we’ve seen a veritable explosion in social networking opportunities this past decade – all possible thanks to new technologies, brilliant minds and funding…
Read MoreDrug Testing Methods
Most people hear “drug test” and instantly think of people peeing into a cup, and for good reason. Most drug testing programs do use urine as the primary way to test for drugs. However, there are other ways to do it. Guest author, Lena Butler, describes the most common drug testing methods, their differences, similarities…
Read MoreImportant Questions to Ask a Teen Addiction Treatment Program
It wasn’t until the past 15-20 years that neuroscientists have had the technology they’ve needed to understand the inner workings of the brain – how it develops, how it’s harmed, what mental illness does to it, what addiction does to it, how it looks after substance abuse is stopped and addiction and/or mental illness are…
Read More7 Sound Bites to Update 2014 Conversations Around Addiction
If you are like the millions of Americans, you may have some long-held beliefs about addiction; beliefs like, “he has to hit bottom in order to get help,” “fix the addict and the family will be fine,” “no way is alcoholism is a disease – cancer is a disease – all s/he has to do…
Read MoreWhat is Love When You Love an Alcoholic
If you love an alcoholic, you know the pain of watching your loved one continue their downward spiral as you try desperately to do anything and everything to help them. And what do you do when the treatment professional you’ve consulted tells you that you must “detach with love” in order to help your loved…
Read MoreDisruptive Child – Could be Sign of Untreated Alcoholism at Home
Disruptive child? It may be their disruptive behaviors are the result of what’s happened to them, not “them.” And the “what’s happened to ‘them’” may be secondhand drinking. Secondhand drinking is the impacts of a person’s drinking behaviors on others, such as the drinking behaviors associated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Children who grow up…
Read MoreDo You Have Reservations About Being Powerless Over Alcohol
Do you believe a person is powerless over alcohol? Do you have reservations about being powerless over alcohol, yourself? Do you worry you can’t find or sustain recovery unless you admit you are powerless? These are common questions and concerns I hear from the alcoholics I work with and their family members and close friends,…
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