Category: Articles and Ideas

Ideas and articles to help the addict and their families

Addiction Treatments Past and Present – Repost

By admin 27 Oct, 2018

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/treatments/ In the past, society viewed drug addiction as a moral flaw. Popular “treatments” involved imprisonment, sentencing to asylums, and church-guided prayer. Not surprisingly, these methods were generally ineffective. Today we understand that addiction is a brain disease characterized by fundamental and long-lasting changes in the brain. Modern treatments are based on scientific research. Treatment

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FDA will broaden how it evaluates new addiction treatment drugs

By admin 20 Oct, 2018

https://www.statnews.com/2018/08/06/fda-expands-medication-assisted-treatment/ The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced a shift in the way it evaluates drugs to treat opioid addiction that the agency says will give it more flexibility to approve new treatments. Now, rather than merely examining whether a potential treatment reduces opioid use, the agency will consider factors like whether a drug

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Repost – Understanding Addiction

By admin 16 Sep, 2018

https://www.helpguide.org/harvard/how-addiction-hijacks-the-brain.htm How Addiction Hijacks the Brain Addiction involves craving for something intensely, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement with it despite adverse consequences. Addiction changes the brain, first by subverting the way it registers pleasure and then by corrupting other normal drives such as learning and motivation. Although breaking an addiction is

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Repost- Repressed Anger

By admin 12 Sep, 2018

Left unprocessed, repressed anger will wreak havoc on your happiness, your relationships, and your overall life. “But I’m not an angry person. I never get angry!”, say most people everywhere. Chances are, if you found your way to this article, there’s some repressed anger buried somewhere deep inside of you. And it isn’t your fault.

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Repost – 7 Ways to release Anger

By admin 12 Sep, 2018

Seven Ways to Release Anger Out of Your Body No emotion is negative unless we refuse to feel it. Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/wellness/personal-growth/seven-ways-to-release-anger-out-of-your-body.aspx#eBh2dkiaeXVZp0iP.99 Anger is a feeling of powerlessness. However, within your anger is a tremendous sense of power, purpose, passion and meaning because when you feel angry, it’s because you wanted to do something

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Repost – 7 Tips For Mothers of Addicts

By admin 6 Sep, 2018 2 Comments

I am always looking for articles to give me guidance during times of stress and I came across this one to share with you. I hope you can gain something from this article by Suzanne Degges-White, PHD Suzanne Degges-White Ph.D. Lifetime Connections 7 Tips for Mothers of Adult Addicts Parenting adult children who abuse substances,

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Understanding Methadone

By admin 31 Aug, 2018

Repost – Article from Ashwood Recovery Methadone Treatment: The Good, Bad and The Ugly Home/Methadone Treatment: The Good, Bad and The Ugly He’s halfway sick and halfway stoned. He’d sure like to kick, but he’s too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone. ~ James Taylor, “A Junkie’s Lament” Methadone treatment for heroin

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Repost -The Guardian, Russell Brand

By admin 31 Aug, 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/aug/12/russell-brand-methadone-treating-heroin-addicts   Russell Brand: methadone is a bad way to treat heroin addicts Comedian backs abstinence as route to recovery Russell Brand has no compunction about calling himself a junkie. “When it comes to the disease of addiction I’m no different from any other addict,” he says. The 37-year-old comedian was hooked on heroin during

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Repost – What you learn from loving an addict

By admin 18 Aug, 2018

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/Alicia-cook/what-you-learn-from-lovin_b_8112240.html What You Learn From Loving An Addict By Alicia Cook Cook, seen here in Point Pleasant, NJSeptember is National Recovery Month.* I am not an addict. But try and love one, and then see if you can look me square in the eyes and tell me that you didn’t get addicted to trying to

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Brainstorming 100+ Sober and Fun Activities

By admin 16 Aug, 2018

Here are 150+ ideas for your weekend. It’s always helpful to get some ideas, a place to start, when you’re just not sure what to do. So here you go, Print this out and Check them off as you go and most importantly have FUN!! 1. Read a book about a place you’d like to

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repost – detaching with love by Fran Simone Phd

By admin 10 Aug, 2018

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/family-affair/201506/detaching-love-0 Like thousands before me who visited the Academia in Florence, Italy, I was astounded by the magnificence of Michelangelo’s statue of David. Yet, I was most taken with the artist’s statues of four Prisoners or Slaves, his “non-finito” (incomplete) works. The Prisoners consist of four nudes with only parts of their bodies, like the head or leg,

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Families & Addiction – Repost from Dr Steven Melemis

By admin 23 Jul, 2018

Repost – from Dr. Steven M. Melemis https://www.addictionsandrecovery.org/families-and-addiction.htm Help for Families With Addiction An addiction destroys families as much as it destroys individuals. Living with an addict is both heartbreaking and exhausting. Family members are torn between how to help the addict and how to avoid being sucked into the addict’s world. Here are some

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Drug Use & Families

By admin 23 Jul, 2018

We can all use information from reputable sources to help us understand how addiction impacts families. Remember that you’re not alone. The following article from NCADD provides an overview and some helpful links. https://www.ncadd.org/family-friends/there-is-help/family-disease Addiction is a family disease that stresses the family to the breaking point, impacts the stability of the home, the family’s

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Great Apparel Messages from Stage Recovery Store

By admin 2 Jul, 2018 2 Comments

https://www.facebook.com/stagerecoverys/ check out this amazing line of clothing! You’re going to love it! http://www.stagerecoverystore.com/ Stage Recovery Clothing has a great line of clothes with inspirational messages. Be sure to check them out and let them know that “Walking Thru The Dark” sent you! The designs are simple but send a powerful message to everyone around

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