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Dealing With a Family Member's Addiction

Dealing With a Family Member's Addiction

November 27, 2016

Commonly, the behavior of addicts leads everyone around them to walk on eggshells, and not know how to act. Either people are afraid to incur the anger of the addict, or afraid to risk sending…

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Depression: Not Just a Mood

Depression: Not Just a Mood

November 27, 2016

These days the expression “I am so depressed right now, today, in life, etc..” has become almost a mood people refer to, but it is important to remember that to many, depression is…

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ACOA: Adult Children of Alcoholics

ACOA: Adult Children of Alcoholics

November 27, 2016

Almost one in five adults in the US, or 18 percent, lived with an alcoholic while growing up, and are now commonly referred to as Adult Children of Alcoholics, or ACOA. Not all alcoholic famil…

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Addiction Recovery & Nutrition: They Go Hand in Hand

Addiction Recovery & Nutrition: They Go Hand in Hand

November 24, 2016

For many recovering addicts, sugar, caffeine and nicotine is the oh so comforting trifecta, and substitute for whatever substance they put down. Sugar may seem like a natural substitute for al…

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Why The Brain Keeps Craving

Why The Brain Keeps Craving

November 22, 2016

The single-minded determination to addiction is not a personal failing; it’s a matter of brain chemistry. Dopamine is at the root of the problem, and it also offers a solution. According…

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Addiction and Cognitive Dissonance

Addiction and Cognitive Dissonance

November 20, 2016

The theory of dissonance reduction predicts if our beliefs are incompatible with our behavior, something has to change: either our beliefs or our behavior. In general, we will choose the path…

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Loving Your Kid to Death

Loving Your Kid to Death

November 17, 2016

Across the nation, families are struggling with addiction, with youth, young adult, and adult children addicted to drugs. In more cases than not, parents will do almost anything to help their…

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Opioid Prescription Limits: The Good and Bad

Opioid Prescription Limits: The Good and Bad

November 15, 2016

This past October 2016, Vermont proposed regulations that would limit the number of opioid-based prescriptions a patient can receive based on certain criteria. When just looking at the face va…

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Vaping: A Perspective to Consider

Vaping: A Perspective to Consider

November 13, 2016

We all know smoking kills. Many clinicians feel that smoking is the hardest addiction to quit. So how about these fancy, tasty new e-cigs, are they really helping people quit, or causing a who…

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Carfentanil: Powerful Animal Tranquilizer Shows Up in US Heroin Supply

Carfentanil: Powerful Animal Tranquilizer Shows Up in US Heroin Supply

November 10, 2016

What is Carfentanil we are all wondering? Well it is the most powerful commercial opioid in the world, and is even forbidden in use in war by the Chemical Weapons Convention. In 2002, gaseous…

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"Virtual Field Trip": DEA Program to Educate Teens on Drugs

November 6, 2016

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is trying to show people the potential horrific effects of addiction by mixing science along with the emotional and personal toll of drugs, into what&…

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DEA: Lowering Opioid Production in the US

DEA: Lowering Opioid Production in the US

November 3, 2016

Back in 2013, the DEA made a special allowance to increase the amount of prescription opioids available in the market in order to prevent the possibility of a critical shortage of the painkill…

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The Next President and Fight Against The Opiate Epidemic

The Next President and Fight Against The Opiate Epidemic

November 1, 2016

We are less than one month away from election day, and for the nearly 2 million Americans suffering from addiction it couldn’t come soon enough. Here are the three major points of each p…

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ACOA: Adult Children of Alcoholics

November 27, 2016

Almost one in five adults in the US, or 18 percent, lived with an alcoholic while growing up, and are now commonly referred to as Adult Children of Alcoholics, or ACOA. Not all alcoholic famil…


Dealing With a Family Member's Addiction

November 27, 2016

Commonly, the behavior of addicts leads everyone around them to walk on eggshells, and not know how to act. Either people are afraid to incur the anger of the addict, or afraid to risk sending…


Depression: Not Just a Mood

November 27, 2016

These days the expression “I am so depressed right now, today, in life, etc..” has become almost a mood people refer to, but it is important to remember that to many, depression is…


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