Trauma: Myths and Realities
Psychological trauma is widely acknowledged to be a major contributor to addiction and human suffering in general. But as the mental health profession has begun to focus more and more on...
Plant Based Medicines That Can Change Addiction Treatment As We Know It
Mark Twain once famously said that, ‘truth is stranger than fiction.’ That pretty much sums up my thoughts on how we treat addiction here in the U.S. There are things about...
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT TO TREATMENT IS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL
“After a one year drop in 2018, U.S. opioid overdose deaths increased again in 2019, topping 50,000 for the first time according to the CDC.” (Associated Press 10-22-2020) There were 82,000...
Staying The Course
Staying The Course, as a boy growing up in Minnesota my whole world revolved around hunting, fishing, trapping, and milking cows. My parents loved me and my two younger sisters but...
Tears
TEARS
Huge tears were rolling down those perfect youthful cheeks. At thirty-four, my youth was coming to an end, her budding womanhood only beginning. Somehow her eyes appeared greener through the tears,...
LIVING BEYOND: THE DOWNSIDE OF SEX AND SEXUAL EXPRESSION
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine, or idealism.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
Sex and sexuality have become more prevalent throughout our global community. Obtaining...
Drug Treatment And The Evolution Of The Soul
You are not who you think you are. Most of us identify with our ego, the self that is attached to everything around us. The self that takes offense to others...
Recovery-Oriented concepts, Values, And Practices Are Widely Accepted In The Addiction Profession, But Gaps...
Recovery concepts have always run through the fabric of the addiction profession, the members of its workforce, and the services they provide, albeit with varying strength over time. The addiction profession,...
NEW CUTTING-EDGE TREATMENTS THAT ARE IMPROVING OUTCOMES
Lately, when I think about the linear progression of addiction treatment in this country, and the world for that matter, an old adage comes to mind, “if you don’t know where...
Understanding Prescription Drug Addiction
Somewhere, at this very moment, a man’s wife agonizes as she receives a call from the police—her husband has been arrested for forging prescriptions for tranquilizers. In another community, a mother...
