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Effective Dual Diagnosis Treatment | Relapse Prevention 26 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
What does it mean to have a co-occurring disorder (a dual diagnosis)? What constitutes effective dual diagnosis treatment? What does effective dual diagnosis treatment have to do with preventing addic...
Help For Recovery – Give Lists a Try 22 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
I am a died-in-the-wool list maker. They have been my “Hansel and Gretel, crumb-dropping pathway” through my secondhand drinking recovery and, well…, I’d have to add – managing my life overall. And wh...
Methadone Treatment | Sorting Fact from Fiction 20 Aug 2013 | 07:36 pm
There so much misinformation about methadone treatment as one of the treatment options for those with heroin addiction. Is it as addictive as heroin? Does a person have to still go through detox? Does...
Incarcerating Drug Offenders | How’s That Working? 18 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
The United States has roughly 5% of the world’s population. It has approximately 25% of it’s prison population. Nearly one half the nation’s prisoners are serving time for drug related crimes. Clearly...
Recovery Month – Celebrate & Promote the Message | Recovery is Real 16 Aug 2013 | 06:20 am
There are 23 million Americans in recovery from addiction – would you have ever guessed it was that high? Not only that, but their family members are living happy, healthier lives as well because addi...
Acceptance is… well, Acceptance | Recovery from Addiction | SHD 13 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
Are you in recovery from addiction or SHD (secondhand drinking | drugging)? Likely, then, you have heard these sorts of phrases: “Live and Let Live,” “Let It Go,” “…to accept the things I cannot chang...
Signs of Heroin Addiction 9 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “In 2011, 4.2 million Americans aged 12 or older (or 1.6 percent) had used heroin at least once in their lives. It is estimated that about 23 ...
Co-Occurring Disorders – Depression and Addiction | Both Must Be Treated 7 Aug 2013 | 07:40 pm
It’s not uncommon for a person who suffers depression (or another mental illness) to also have the brain disease of addiction. This is known as having co-occurring disorders. Both mental illness and a...
Talking About Addiction | Let’s Make the Day Come When We Have These Sorts of Conversations 4 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
Recently I gave a talk to a group of parents of children with the chronic, often relapsing – but treatable – brain disease of addiction. I shared a bit about my own experiences with loved ones with th...
Addiction Treatment Medications | Are They Cheating? 3 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
I was speaking at a forum recently and this question came up (it actually comes up quite often), “Aren’t these addiction treatment medications sort of like cheating?” And then the person asking the q...
