Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Alcohol Use Disorder Prevention – Raising Awareness About Brain Development and the Risk Factors | Alcohol Awareness Month
Alcohol Use Disorder Prevention – why is it that one teen or adult in a group of friends who drinks too much finds themselves struggling with an alcohol use disorder and the others do not? How is it possible that a teenager can develop a severe alcohol use disorder (aka alcoholism or alcohol dependence) —…
Read MoreThoughts on Disease and Recovery – Addiction and Cancer
Disease and Recovery – most people do not understand addiction to be a chronic disease like other chronic diseases. In today’s guest post, John M McNamara shares his thoughts on disease and recovery – his own (cancer) and his wife’s (addiction) – to emphasize his point that addiction is a disease, as is cancer, and that…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month – Celebrating Women Leaders in the Addiction and Family Recovery Movements
Women’s History Month is celebrated annually during the month of March. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum celebrate Women’s History Month to recognize “the great contributions that women have made to our nation”…
Read MoreAbout the Terms Alcohol Abuse | Alcoholism | Alcohol Use Disorder
Confusion about the terms alcohol abuse | alcoholism | alcohol use disorder often gets in the way of a person seeking the help they need or causes family members, friends, co-workers, and society-at-large to excuse, rationalize, deny, blame and/or shame that person in their misguided attempts to avoid labeling them an alcoholic or alcohol abuser.…
Read MoreChildren of Addiction Awareness Week | February 11 – 17, 2018
Children of Addiction Awareness Week is an annual event celebrated around the world during the week of Valentine’s Day. It is sponsored by the National Association for Children of Addiction, NACoA.org. NACoA’s mission is to eliminate the adverse impact of alcohol and other drug use on children and families, and the theme for this year’s…
Read MorePediatricians Screening for ACEs Can Change Lives
Pediatricians screening for ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) can change a child’s life. And yet, according to the Academic Pediatrics [Journal] 2016;16:154–160 article, Do Pediatricians Ask About Adverse Childhood Experiences, “Only 2% of pediatricians reported that they were very familiar with the ACEs study, 9% were somewhat familiar, 13% were vaguely familiar, and 76% were not at…
Read MoreFinding Help for a Drinking Problem
Time and again, the calls, emails and blog post comments I receive are centered around the difficulty the person has experienced in finding help for a drinking problem, whether it’s their own or a loved one’s. And it is often this time of year, after a holiday season filled with work, social and family gatherings…
Read MoreYogic Tools for Recovery – New Book by Kyczy Hawk
Yogic Tools for Recovery is Kyczy Hawk’s latest book (November 2017), and it is powerful on so many levels. Not only for its significant contribution as a tool to help those recovering from addiction*, but also for Kyczy’s ability to paint a picture – a feeling – with words. And it is in the latter,…
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