Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Methadone Treatment: Isn’t It Just an Alternative Addiction?
Methadone Treatment — isn’t it just another addiction? I was asked about Methadone Treatment for prescription drug addiction at one of my recent lectures and realized that I did not fully understand it, myself. So, I contacted Tim Cheney, co-founder of Chooper’s Guide, and learned the following: Q. What is methadone treatment and for what…
Read MoreSecondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD): Understand | Treat | Prevent – Break the Cycles
Secondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD) – how does understanding it lead to prevention and treatment of substance abuse, addiction, alcoholism, underage drinking and | and/or underage drug abuse? In other words, how does it help break the cycle? Secondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD) Explained There are several entry points to the disease of addiction (whether…
Read MoreCancer Trumps Addiction – What’s With That!?
Addiction vs cancer or any number of other diseases for that matter… One of my biggest frustrations is the way friends, family, neighbors and society-at-large view and respond to people with diseases, like cancer, as compared to the way they respond to people with diseases like addiction (whether to drugs or alcohol) or mental illness.…
Read MoreSometimes a Change in How We Talk About Something Can Change How We Deal With It…
by Lisa Frederiksen As you’ve gathered from the title of this site: Breaking The Cycles – Changing the Conversations, I’m a big proponent of changing how we talk about addiction- and substance abuse-related topics, in the hopes that by doing so, we can have BETTER outcomes. So, I thought I’d share a few that I…
Read MoreUsing Neuroscience to Help With Long-Term Recovery | Re-Wiring The Brain
Using neuroscience to help with long-term recovery makes sense when we understand the brain impacts of addiction. I was honored to be interviewed on this subject by Mary Woods as a guest on the Westbridge Voice America Show, “One Hour at a Time.” The title of the program is “Re-wiring the Brain – Understanding Neural…
Read MoreCoping With Secondhand Drinking | Drugging as a Young Person Can Cause a Young Person to Wire Unhealthy Coping Skills
Secondhand Drinking | Drugging – when a young person is “forced” to cope with a family member’s ongoing drinking or drugging behaviors, it can actually change how that young person’s brain wires. This, in turn, means it can actually change that young person’s life. Impacts of Coping With Secondhand Drinking | Drugging In previous posts,…
Read MorePsychopharmacology Explained
Psychopharmacology is a term that appears in discussions with family members who have a loved one with a dual diagnosis. To answer the question, “What is it,” here is the definition from American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology: Psychopharmacology is the study of the use of medications in treating mental disorders. The complexity of this field…
Read MoreUsing Nutrition to Heal the Brain
Using nutrition to heal the brain is one of the easier things a person can do to start their addiction recovery process. Really! Addiction is a brain disease. Thus, “things,” such as nutrition, that can help heal the brain actually help treat the disease and assist a person in their long-term recovery. The following is…
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