“Drug Czar” Michael Boticelli has released recent research indicating that changes in the way we talk about addiction could actually help those struggling with the disease. Current addiction vocabulary keeps stereotypes alive, and stigmatization is one of the main reasons addicted individuals do ...
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Jun
02
2015
It could pass for harmless moustache wax or lip salve, but this new drug is dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. Budder (also known as “butter”) is a yellowish, gooey substance that made its debut in Florida recently, along with another designer drug known as “flakka.” What makes budder ...
May
19
2015
Jason,I just want to thank you for everything you’ve for me since I’ve been here. I know I was probably a pain in the a** a lot of the time. I was coming up there asking you for s***, but only reason I did that was because you’re an honest, straight up dude, and I respect that. I can tell you hon...
May
12
2015
Logically, addiction makes sense. When you have pain – any kind of pain, whether it’s physical or emotional or psychological – you fix it with a substance or a behavior, and you just keep doing that, over and over and over. When what you’re doing to numb the pain fails to do its job, you keep upp...
May
05
2015
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J.K. RowlingWhen we think of addicted individuals hitting rock-bottom before reaching recovery, we may think in catastrophic terms like homelessness, serious physical consequences such as liver disease or heart failure, shooting ...
Apr
21
2015
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and spirituality are two approaches to recovery used by almost all rehab centers today and often in conjunction with traditional proven approaches like A.A. Cognitive behavioral therapy, which entails a restructuring of thoughts, is most often associated with th...
Apr
14
2015
Debbie, my counselor, or Vicki, Shannon, Helen, Bobbette, Reilly, Jason Soto or Gail, please, tell them I am grateful for all they did for my Recovery and that I miss and love them.You could give my email address to any of them if they want to stay in touch. I'm living 2 hrs away, at my mom's hou...
Apr
07
2015
You can experience uncomfortable drug withdrawal symptoms without knowing that your discomfort stems from withdrawal. Let’s say you’ve decided to cut back on a prescription drug you’ve been using for a bit too long. Or maybe you’ve decided to end hangovers forever by cutting alcohol out of your l...
Mar
31
2015
John Hamm, the actor best known for his role in AMC’s TV series Mad Men, just completed a thirty-day treatment program for alcohol addiction. At the end of February, he checked into a hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, which is affiliated with Yale University.Don Draper, Hamm’s character in the...
Feb
24
2015
Managing anxiety in recovery is an important aspect of the healing process. Withdrawal from alcohol and drugs can send individuals back to the substances they used for curbing anxiety in the first place, due to the even greater anxiety that often comes with withdrawal. The biological explanation ...
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