Addiction | Substance Use Disorders | Treatment
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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreDry Drunk | When an Alcoholic Stops Drinking or a Drug Addict Stops Using But Does Not Seem to Get Better
Dry drunk is a term to describe an alcoholic or drug addict’s behaviors when they’ve stopped using their substance but their behaviors don’t seem to improve. The following is a guest post by Bill Urell who has been in recovery for 16 years. Bill works as an addictions therapist at a leading residential treatment center,…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreMethadone 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…
Read MoreSecondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD): Understand | Treat | Prevent – Break the Cycles
Secondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD) – how does understanding it lead to prevention and treatment of substance abuse, addiction, alcoholism, underage drinking and | and/or underage drug abuse? In other words, how does it help break the cycle? Secondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD) Explained There are several entry points to the disease of addiction (whether…
Read MoreCancer 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.…
Read MoreSometimes a Change in How We Talk About Something Can Change How We Deal With It…
by Lisa Frederiksen As you’ve gathered from the title of this site: Breaking The Cycles – Changing the Conversations, I’m a big proponent of changing how we talk about addiction- and substance abuse-related topics, in the hopes that by doing so, we can have BETTER outcomes. So, I thought I’d share a few that I…
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