Addiction | Substance Use Disorders | Treatment
Staying Sober During the Holidays
Buddy T has been the Alcoholism Guide for About.com: Alcoholism since February, 1997. His blog post of today is titled, “Recovery During the Holidays,” which I thought may help readers who are either in recovery themselves or love someone who is… Newly sober people are often confronted with drinking and using situations during the holiday…
Read More9 Reasons a Person Can Lose Control of Drinking
Lose control of drinking – what does this mean and how does it happen? What does it mean to lose control of drinking? Losing control of one’s drinking results in drinking behaviors like those listed below. These kinds of drinking behaviors occur when a person drinks more alcohol (which contains ethyl alcohol chemicals that change…
Read MoreThe Cost to Businesses When Workers Have a Drinking Problem
The cost to businesses when workers have a drinking problem extends far beyond their being under the influence while in the workplace. Off-hours, off-site binge or heavy social drinking impact the workplace through absenteeism, late arrivals, early departures, the body / brain still trying to process the alcohol thus not functioning fully, impacts on fellow…
Read MoreExercise Helps With Addiction Recovery
Exercise helps with addiction recovery because it helps the brain! Thanks to new brain research, we now understand that exercise actually helps with healing the brain. Given addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease, healing the brain is critical to addiction recovery. So here’s to exercise and here’s how it works! Exercise Helps With…
Read MoreAddiction Recovery – Why All Does Not Seem Better When Your Loved One Stops Drinking
Addiction Recovery – why does it not “feel” better when a loved one finally stops drinking (or using drugs, if they’re a drug addict) and seeks help? Time and again readers and those I speak with express their concerns that “things” don’t feel better once the drinking (or drug use) stops. They worry that “this…
Read MoreOur Elastic Standards of Drinking
This is a guest post from The Discovering Alcoholic, who writes a top rated recovery blog, www.discoveringalcoholic.com, covering alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment and recovery issues. Just one couldn’t hurt… but I’ve only had two… maybe one more please, to cap the night off. As an alcoholic, I always found a reason to have one more…
Read MoreThe Oprah Winfrey Show – The Diane Schuler Story
I watched The Oprah Winfrey Show – The Diane Schuler Story, yesterday, and I was struck on so many, many fronts, but the two I’m going to talk about in this post have nothing to do with the Diane Schuler Story. They relate to the portions of the show that followed that segment. [Beyond] The…
Read MoreDual Diagnosis – Explanation & Treatment
Dual Diagnosis – what is it and how is it treated? or can it be treated? One of the repeated concerns I hear when giving my presentations is the lack of satisfactory treatment for a dual diagnosis, which occurs when a person is diagnosed with both a mental illness (PTSD, Anxiety, Bipolar, ADHD, schizophrenia) and…
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