Now that Celebrity Rehab 4 is going to be airing, I notice I have butterflies in my stomach. That familiar feeling that are people going to be judging me again for my work on Celebrity Rehab. No one can judge me more than I sometimes judge myself for many things, but not this. I totally …
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Boredom Contributing Factor to Adolescents and Addiction
September 4th, 2010 | Posted by in Addiction | Adolescents | Alcohol Addiction | Drug Addiction - (1 Comments)Lately I have noticed a theme amongst teenagers as to one of the reasons they are using and abusing drugs and/or alcohol. They tell me they are “bored.” As someone growing up in the seventies, there were no video games, cell phones, texting, emailing, or computers and the internet. In other words, there wasn’t the instant gratification that …
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Why Don’t We Embrace Change?
August 14th, 2010 | Posted by in Addiction | Addiction Discussions | Alcohol Addiction - (Comments Off on Why Don’t We Embrace Change?)Recently, I read an impressive summation of the past 40 years of alcohol treatment research in Alcohol Research & Health. It notes a raft of advances made in alcoholism treatment as well as new and fresh paradigms to understand alcohol dependence. The article is well worth the time to read.* I was, however, stuck by …
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Good Clinical Questions Receive Quality Answers
May 6th, 2010 | Posted by in Addiction | Alcohol Addiction - (Comments Off on Good Clinical Questions Receive Quality Answers)Many people in our field will try to convince you that you need the most modern research data, more experience, or the latest greatest treatment to help your clients. While they certainly help, all have limits. Limits? Yes, for example, research as it is most often conducted gives you good information on groups. The results …
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Women and Alcoholism: Have you reached your bottom or does that matter?
May 2nd, 2010 | Posted by in Alcohol Addiction - (2 Comments)On Friday evening, “20/20” co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas reported on mothers who are struggling to stay alive from their addictions in a documentary entitled, “Mothers Little Helper”. She profiles stories of four courageous women from across the country who shares their painful but honest struggles with their addictions. Viewers take a rare look inside the homes …
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When Resentment Turns To Anger
April 13th, 2010 | Posted by in Addiction | Alcohol Addiction - (1 Comments)As addicts and alcoholics, you all understand you have no room for un-resolved anger in your recovery program. On the other side of anger is resentment or a feeling that some injustice has been done to you. Something or someone is irritating you or it is “just not fair.” Don’t you wish you could just …
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Really Big Questions
April 1st, 2010 | Posted by in Addiction | Alcohol Addiction - (Comments Off on Really Big Questions)A fellow named Mike Gazzaniga recently remarked that he and other cognitive neuro-scientists have pressed themselves to ask really big questions of their field. For example, they asked themselves about the very nature of consciousness. How it works? How does the brain produce such a phenomena? Where is it located exactly in our brain? The …
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