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	<title>Breakingthecycles.com - Changing the Conversations &#187; Alcoholism</title>
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	<description>...using 21st century brain and addiction-related research to change how we talk about, treat and prevent substance misuse, underage drinking, addiction and secondhand drinking/drugging.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A3 Addiction Rehab Finder</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/25/a3-addiction-rehab-finder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding effective addiction treatment &#8212; a program that addresses the individual&#8217;s specific needs &#8212; is difficult. Throw in insurance vs. no insurance; location; dual diagnosis treatment and the like, and it becomes even more difficult.
Adi Jaffe, a doctoral student at UCLA, himself a former drug dealer and meth addict, founded All About Addiction (A3), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links This Week</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/23/links-this-week-63/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[75 years of 12 steps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gender-Related Influences of Parental Alcoholism on the Prevalence of Psychiatric Illnesses: Anlysis of the National Epidemiolgic Survey on Alcohol and Related Issues

Abstract:
Background: Offspring of individuals with alcoholism are at increased risk for psychiatric illness, but the effects of gender on this risk are not well known. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Effective Addiction Treatment Can Be Tough!</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/20/finding-effective-addiction-treatment-can-be-tough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol-Related Public Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a guest post from Eileen and Alisa, mother and daughter, working together to fight the family disease of addiction.
Appropriate addiction treatment is hard to find. Recently I did a web search (google) for best rehabs.  I called the first 800# and told the operator that my husband was using, and we needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dual Diagnosis Treatment &#8211; What Is It? Where to turn for help?</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/18/dual-diagnosis-treatment-what-is-it-where-to-turn-for-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/18/dual-diagnosis-treatment-what-is-it-where-to-turn-for-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dual Diagnosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Frederiksen
Thirty-seven percent of alcohol abusers and fifty-three percent of drug abusers also have at least one serious mental illness, such as depression, PTSD, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenia. (1) (2)   The common term for this condition in treatment circles is a “dual diagnosis,” which refers to someone having both a mental illness and an addiction. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality in a Nutshell for the Recovering Alcoholic</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/06/spirituality-in-a-nutshell-for-the-recovering-alcoholic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/07/06/spirituality-in-a-nutshell-for-the-recovering-alcoholic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post from The Discovering Alcoholic, who writes a top rated recovery blog, www.discoveringalcoholic.com, covering alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment and recovery issues.
There’s a reason why explanations on the importance of spirituality in recovery either follow along the lines of religious dogma or new age mysticism – it’s because the attainment, even the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering in Anonymity Continues the Secrecy and Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/24/recovering-in-anonymity-continues-the-secrecy-and-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol-Related Public Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Frederiksen
You have probably been told something like, “Alcoholism / drug addiction is just like any other disease.” After which you have probably said to yourself or to whomever made the statement, “Like *!?!#! it is! People with diabetes or heart disease don’t steal money from me or endanger my children by driving while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consider the First Three Steps of NA/AA From a Science Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/22/im-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/22/im-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[powerless over alcohol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Frederiksen
The following is an excerpt from the book in some of my upcoming book, Love One In Treatment? Now What! The &#8220;research&#8221; it refers to is the 21st century brain and addictions-related research now available&#8230;
Applying This Research to the First Three Steps of AA and NA
Because the majority of addicts/alcoholics are introduced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loved One In Treatment? Now What!</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/17/loved-one-in-treatment-now-what/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/17/loved-one-in-treatment-now-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look for Lisa&#8217;s latest book, Loved One In Treatment? Now What!, an Essential Handbook for Family Members and Friends Navigating the Path of a Loved One&#8217;s Addiction, Treatment and Recovery, coming late August 2010 &#8212; just in time for National Recovery Month in September!

 




Cover Design by Irene E. Yu



 How can addiction be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brain Can Change&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/13/the-brain-can-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/13/the-brain-can-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research on addiction and the brain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most encouraging things about all of the new brain and addiction-related research is learning we can actually change and heal neural networks and thereby change and repair our brains. This can be especially helpful to addicts/alcoholics and their families and friends because addiction is a brain disease. And as a disease, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Annual Conference on Women, Addiction &amp; Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/10/4th-annual-conference-on-women-addiction-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.breakingthecycles.com/blog/2010/06/10/4th-annual-conference-on-women-addiction-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Frederiksen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Help for Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction treatment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sounds like an amazing conference sponsored by SAMHSA and TASC and cosponsored by equally important organizations. Click here for complete details and find the invitation summary below&#8230;

Join with leaders, colleagues and stakeholders as we create a two-and-a-half-day Conference Community to dialog on the current research, innovations and trends serving women and girls with substance [...]]]></description>
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