Pharmacology’s making it easier to stop drinking. As anyone familiar with alcoholism knows, getting alcohol out of the body is only the bare beginning. The reason alcoholics often return to drinking is due to the psychological obsession with alcohol, the ongoing craving for alcohol…
This is an addition to yesterday’s post. To clarify, in addiction treatment when we deal with the social and psychological consequences of addiction, we’re not trying to establish our preference for value judgements. We’re looking at coping skills and encouraging the clients to re-evaluate how…
The high-performing athlete concentrates on and practices physical and mental requirements to achieve success. The serious student blocks off time to pay attention to and study necessary subject matter to gain specialized knowledge. An accomplished musician shuts out distractions and focuses on the task at hand, allowing herself…
What are Endorphins? The excerpt below is from Wikipedia: Endorphins (contracted from “endogenous morphine”[note 1]) are endogenous opioid neuropeptides in humans and other animals. They are produced by the central nervous system and the pituitary gland. The term implies a pharmacological activity (analogous to the…
I’ve heard over and over from people just starting out in recovery from addiction that it feels like life is over. It might seem obvious to most that abstinence is expected if a person’s going to recover from addiction, but for the one addicted the acceptance of this painful reality…
I definitely don’t want to come across as a prohibitionist, a nanny lecturing adults about the evil of alcohol. For those who drink socially and enjoy the experience, that’s fine by me. There should be no confusion between the treatment of alcoholism and drinking alcohol in…
By the language of addiction I mean how we talk about addiction in ordinary day to day discussion, how addiction professionals talk about addiction among themselves, how addiction professionals talk about addiction with clients/patients, how medical professionals who don’t specialize in addiction talk about it,…
Those who become addicted to opiates through prescribed medication for a legitimate medical condition like pain relief have a hard time accepting they have the same opiate addiction as someone who became addicted after using opiates they bought from a dealer to get high. There’s a…
I recently read about a group of young professionals from Brisbane who started a movement in 2010 to help change ideas about drinking alcohol. The movement is Hello Sunday Morning (HSM). This is a recent blog. I chose this blog because it relates to…
It can be tough on people in addiction recovery around Christmas and New Year. Holidays and addiction recovery cause friction in early recovery The parties and spirit of celebration too often center around alcohol spirits. The holiday season doesn’t have to be difficult for those in…
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