If practice made perfect we’d all be experts at getting angry. Still, not many of us do a very good job of it. Either we lash out and...

When Behaviors Become Addictions by Vonda Schaefer, MFT, NNTS, Alliance Member Behavior Addictions - Is shopping, gaming,...

Joan Mathews-Larson, PhD, one of the most important people in the world of addiction treatment, passed away on Tuesday. Joan was my...

Cocaine is extracted from coca leaves, and was used initially as a painkiller. In fact, in the late 1880s it was dentistry’s first...

Initially my drug of choice was alcohol, and I drank alcoholically from the start at age 18. After 12 years of constant trouble,...

A 64-year-old woman came to see me with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and out-of-control diabetes and kidney disease. She complained...

Americans suffering from food-addiction compose over 50 percent of the adult population. That percentage is even higher among recovering...