Help for Families | Secondhand Drinking | Codependency
Secondhand Drinking | Secondhand Drugging (SHD)
Secondhand drinking, secondhand drugging – they’re as real as secondhand smoke. They are what happens to those who are on the receiving end of a person’s drinking or drug abuse behaviors. What is Secondhand Drinking | Secondhand Drugging (SHD) SHD refers to the negative impacts of a person’s drinking or drugging behaviors. It is what…
Read MoreConcerned About Your Child’s Drinking or Drug Use? Watch This!
Concerned about your child’s drinking or drug use is cause for alarm in and of itself. For if we are concerned, then likely there really is a problem. This may sound confusing, but think of it this way – something (whether it’s changed behaviors, changed friend groups, outrageous risk taking activities) is raising an alarm,…
Read MoreThe Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
Astounding findings about the role of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) on brain development are now available. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) – Childhood Trauma If you’ve been following my blog or my books, you will have repeatedly read that one of the key risk factors for developing a substance abuse problem and/or addiction is childhood trauma.…
Read MoreBorderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder and the substance abuse | addiction connection explained. The importance of understanding is, in part, due to the role mental illness plays as one of the five key risk factors for developing an addiction. Often people who suffer from a mental illness, such as borderline personality disorder, also suffer from substance abuse…
Read MoreFinally! The Need for Physicians Substance Abuse Training in the News
Physicians Substance Abuse Training is gaining traction in the news! I was thrilled to read Join Together’s January 18, 2011, News Summary, “Physician Substance Abuse Training ‘Inadequate,’ Experts Say.” The following are the recommendations cited by the referenced paper’s lead author, Patrick O’Connor, M.D., Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at Yale, who…
Read MoreContinuing Care | 3rd Phase of Addiction Treatment
Continuing Care | 3rd phase of addiction treatment – what is meant by this? Doesn’t completing a rehab program or involvement with a 12-step program fix it? First to the Issue of Continuing Care | the 3rd Phase of Addiction Treatment Because addiction – whether it’s an addiction to illegal or prescription drugs or to…
Read MoreWhat Else Can I Do To Help Her?
I received the following and was asked to post it on this blog. A young woman, 29, mother of 2, recovering crack addict, sober for 4 years is crushed by the effect drugs had on her, her 2 kids, 5 and 7, and her life. She works as a hair cutter in a discount salon…
Read MoreUnderstanding What Happens to the Family of an Alcoholic | Addict
For a better understanding of what happens to the family of an alcoholic or drug addict when their loved one enters treatment, please consider watching this interview on the subject, downloaded in two parts – each 15 minutes long. What Happens to the Family of an Alcoholic/Addict The following two-part interview was conducted by Gabrielle…
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