World AIDS Day – World ADDICTIONS Day?

World Addictions Day? Yes. It’s time. World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1. The World AIDS Campaign’s goal is “to ensure that governments and policy makers meet the HIV targets they set, the commitments they made, and mobilize the necessary resources for a world where people do not die of AIDS and opportunistic infections…

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The Gift

The following is a guest post by Aleta Edwards, Psy.D., who has been in private practice for the past 18 years and has also performed psychological evaluations on children in foster care, conducted disability evaluations, counseled nursing home residents, and worked with active-duty military as a contract psychologist at Maxwell AFB in Alabama. She presently…

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The Benefits of Therapy

Therapy for recovery from an addiction or chronic exposure to secondhand drinking – what might be the benefits? I read this post by Suzanne Harrington, “Do You Need Your Head Examined?,” appearing on the October 23, 2011 Independent.ie, Lifestyle page. Having spent three years in intensive therapy with an addictions specialist myself, I found her…

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Methadone Treatment: Isn’t It Just an Alternative Addiction?

Methadone Treatment — isn’t it just another addiction? I was asked about Methadone Treatment for prescription drug addiction at one of my recent lectures and realized that I did not fully understand it, myself. So, I contacted Tim Cheney, co-founder of Chooper’s Guide,  and learned the following: Q. What is methadone treatment and for what…

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Cancer Trumps Addiction – What’s With That!?

Addiction vs cancer or any number of other diseases for that matter… One of my biggest frustrations is the way friends, family, neighbors and society-at-large view and respond to people with diseases, like cancer, as compared to the way they respond to people with diseases like addiction (whether to drugs or alcohol) or mental illness.…

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