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Addiction in the Age of Brain Science
Studying The Brain Functions In this talk Markus Heilig presents new findings in the science of addiction, as viewed ...

Patient Brokers, Who’s Responsible and What Can be Done?: Part 1
By now I’m sure many if not all of you reading this are familiar with the terms “patient broker” or, ...

A Promise Made, A Promise Kept
I spent a good portion of my day yesterday speaking to a potential new patient. She, very clearly, was nearing ...

Transforming Your Life With Exercise
In as little as three to four thirty minute sessions of aerobic exercise per week Dr. Suzuki’s research indicates that ...

Changing the Stigma of Addiction
In the above video clip, Michael Botticelli makes a compelling argument for the necessity of changing the stigma attached to ...

Transitioning Into Recovery, A Family Perspective: Part III
In the first two parts of this series we have examined how to approach the subject of treatment with a ...

The Evolutionary Foundation of Movement, and its Efficacy in Treating Substance Use Disorder
More Effective Than Any Protocol Over the last twenty years increasing amounts of research has been done showing the link ...

Why You Should Consider Going Out Of State For Treatment
When it is time to seek help for drug and alcohol addiction there are many factors that need to be ...

“The Opposite of Addiction is Connection”
An Inability To Connect In his Ted Talk from TEDGlobal London, Johann Hari makes the statement that, “the opposite of ...

Transitioning Into Recovery, A Family Perspective: Part II
In our last article in this series, we discussed strategies on how to effectively have the initial conversation leading toward ...

Who Can I Turn To?
Questions Worth Asking Through our organization website last night I received a question that was so succinct and addressed such ...

Transitioning Into Recovery, A Family Perspective: Part I
Transition Requires Courage Making the transition to a life in recovery is never easy. This is true whether the individual ...