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Dec 17, 20193 min read

ANGER MANAGEMENT

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...

Dec 5, 20193 min read

When Behaviors Become Addictions

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

Dec 5, 20190 min read

Neurotransmitters in the Addicted Brain | How to Get High Naturally

Dec 5, 20190 min read

Emotional Attachments to Food and How to Break Them

Dec 5, 20190 min read

Nutritional Therapy for Addiction and Mental Illness Recovery

Dec 5, 20192 min read

Remembering Joan Mathews-Larson

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

Sep 12, 20177 min read

Stimulant Addiction

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

Sep 12, 20173 min read

Law By Day, Crack by Night

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

Sep 12, 20172 min read

PRO-RECOVERY DIET FOR COMPULSIVE OVEREATING

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

Sep 12, 20172 min read

Sugar, Starch, and Other Addictive Foods

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