This is very interesting… in a recent episode of the TV show Adam Ruins Everything, he debunked the value of rehabs or treatment at all, insisting that drugs and alcohol have been in society for thousands of years, and just aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon. He goes...
Episode after episode of the TV show Intervention cuts to the quick of how addicts ruin not only their own lives, but how their addictive and destructive behavior can break even the strongest of us. Shattered families confront shattered addicts in the hopes of mending...
The term ‘harm reduction’ has many interpretations and many applications, so please understand I am talking about a general concept where a person is taught the safest practices possible, be it wearing a seat belt when driving, using condoms for safe sex, using clean...
Anyone who has observed or studied human beings knows that there is a pecking order to every group, with the pack leader at the top, low man on the totem pole at the bottom, and everyone else fits in between, in some form of hierarchy. A common but little discussed...
It's hard enough to arrest a relapse or a slip and help our clients or loved ones get back on track, but what do you do when the relapse turns to active addiction, being straddled with some sick days here and there, then back hitting hard again? I wish there was a...
Why is it that both Robert and one of his co-workers, Jane, are suffering from sleepless nights, but my remedy selection for him is different than hers? It’s because with homeopathy, we do not generically treat conditions, we address the individual...
There still seems to be some confusion about harm reduction, so let me clarify a few things. First, whoever thinks they can practice harm reduction while living in a rehab residential program or sober living, is just wrong. Sober living is specifically a time for...
I am very worried about an IV drug user in recovery who had been exposed to Hep C and is now experiencing symptoms. Folks, you can do your own research, but I do believe I have put together a very complete list of literally anything natural you can do to reduce...
Addiction has been called a state-of-mind, a behavior, and a disorder of the brain circuitry- all of which are correct. Here is an eye-opening article By Nellie Bowles of the New York Times, cautioning that addiction to the computer...
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