Addiction | Substance Use Disorders | Treatment
Using Neuroscience to Help With Long-Term Recovery | Re-Wiring The Brain
Using neuroscience to help with long-term recovery makes sense when we understand the brain impacts of addiction. I was honored to be interviewed on this subject by Mary Woods as a guest on the Westbridge Voice America Show, “One Hour at a Time.” The title of the program is “Re-wiring the Brain – Understanding Neural…
Read MoreCoping With Secondhand Drinking | Drugging as a Young Person Can Cause a Young Person to Wire Unhealthy Coping Skills
Secondhand Drinking | Drugging – when a young person is “forced” to cope with a family member’s ongoing drinking or drugging behaviors, it can actually change how that young person’s brain wires. This, in turn, means it can actually change that young person’s life. Impacts of Coping With Secondhand Drinking | Drugging In previous posts,…
Read MorePsychopharmacology Explained
Psychopharmacology is a term that appears in discussions with family members who have a loved one with a dual diagnosis. To answer the question, “What is it,” here is the definition from American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology: Psychopharmacology is the study of the use of medications in treating mental disorders. The complexity of this field…
Read MoreUsing Nutrition to Heal the Brain
Using nutrition to heal the brain is one of the easier things a person can do to start their addiction recovery process. Really! Addiction is a brain disease. Thus, “things,” such as nutrition, that can help heal the brain actually help treat the disease and assist a person in their long-term recovery. The following is…
Read MoreSteve Hauptman and Bert Talk About Relapse and the 3 Steps Out
The following is a guest post from Monkeytraps: A blog about control, which has two authors: Steve Hauptman, LCSW, and Bert. (If you’re new to Monkeytraps, Steve is a therapist who specializes in control issues, and Bert is his control-addicted inner monkey.) That’s Bert above, relapsing. Bert and Steve are talking. Bert speaks first.) I really don’t want to…
Read MoreBrain Development | Mental Illness and Underage Drug | Alcohol Misuse
Brain Development | Mental Illness and Underage Drug | Alcohol Misuse – yes – there is a strong, deeply important connection between these three that must be understood. For this reason, I’m sharing a video by Pathway to Prevention that Cathy Taughinbaugh of TreatmentTalk.org shared on her website recently. The messages it contains are extremely…
Read MoreDigital Technology and the Brain
Digital technology and the brain – new information, new understandings. Maxine Einhorn, Project Supervisor, KQED [Public Media for Northern CA] Education, has created a new website, “New Media Literacies: Exploring the Changing Digital Media Landscape with ESL Students.” In the site introduction, Ms. Einhorn notes and then queries: “As technology transforms the way students learn,…
Read MoreSAMHSA Adds New Recovery Month Celebration Tools
by Lisa Frederiksen To help with Recovery Month (September) celebrations, SAMHSA’s National Recovery Month Team has added two new tools: a “Why ‘RE’covery?” youtube video and an Inspiriational Quote Widget — both linked below. Please take the time to check them out and then add them to your blog and/or share them on your Facebook…
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