Category : Chemical Dependency

Harlow Gardens

Located in the vibrant heart of downtown Palm Springs, Harlow Gardens is a 41 bed inpatient detox and...

Harlow Gardens
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27 Jun, 2025

From Dope to Hope

Tim Ryan once sat at the head of a high-tech conference table, confident that money solved most problems. A...

Tim Ryan
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27 Jun, 2025

Healing Loudly

By the time Jennifer Gimenez was 13, she had graced the pages of Vogue, walked the runways for Calvin Klein, and...

Jennifer Gimenez
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27 Jun, 2025

Life After Heroin: Healing Beyond...

There was a time in my life when heroin was everything to me. It was my god, my escape, my comfort, and my curse....

Cory Hobson
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27 Jun, 2025

Random Encounters on The Ibogaine...

  Introduction While the public's attention has been occupied by Covid 19, another epidemic has been sweeping...

Spero Alexio
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08 Sep, 2021

Prescription Drug Addiction: ...

Time to pick up your remote, find the Oxygen Channel and watch Season 2, Episode 5 of “License to Kill” (also...

Joan Borsten
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10 Sep, 2020

Balancing Biochemistry for...

Excerpted from Dr. Hyla Cass’ book: The Addicted Brain and How to Break Free The Biochemical Roots Of Addiction...

Hyla Cass M.D.
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19 Apr, 2017

Reefer Madness: Is Life Imitating...

Some of us remember the 1936 film, Reefer Madness. It was intentionally created to be dramatic to capture the...

Jon Daily, LCSW, CADC...
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25 Feb, 2017

When Does Drug Use Become Drug...

There’s a saying about a frog in a kettle: If you throw him into boiling water he’ll reflexively jump out....

Dan Howard
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30 Aug, 2014

The Symptom and the Solution

There was an article in the Los Angeles Times a few months ago about addiction. This is not uncommon, but...

Dr. Karen Khaleghi
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05 Feb, 2014

The Mindful Eating Diet for Recovery

In our modern recovery programs, there is a gamut of dietary and nutritional offerings coming from the kitchens. ...

Randi Ragan
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05 Nov, 2013

The ism or Geriatric Children

“You got no chance, but use it” ~ movie title by Werner Herzog Alcoholism is not about the type of...

Jasmine Rogg, MFT
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05 Nov, 2013

Pain Recovery

I just left a group of pain clients at Las Vegas Recovery Center (LVRC). I have the same experience on a daily...

Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM
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05 Nov, 2013

Thy Food Shall Be Thy Medicine

Anyone who has worked with people with addictions and particularly challenging mental health issues, such as...

Meredith Watkins
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05 Nov, 2013

The Law of Sobriety by Sherry Gaba

When the movie, The Secret, debuted, it generated instant buzz. Everyone wanted to know more and more about this...

Sherry Gaba, LCSW...
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05 Nov, 2013

A Relationship of a Different Sort

Father Joseph Martin, a well-known lecturer on alcoholism, said it best: “What causes a problem, is a...

Angie Carter
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05 Nov, 2013

Walking the Tightrope of Pain...

When you live with chronic pain, it can be very frustrating when you aren’t getting the pain relief you want. I...

Dr. Stephen F....
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05 Nov, 2013

Trigger Events

Most people can tell you what a trigger is and can provide examples of triggers, but very few can tell you what...

Bob Tyler, BA, LAADC,...
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05 Nov, 2013

The New Age Addict

Once upon a time there were “drug addicts.” Drug addicts were sleazy, desperate characters we only saw...

Stuart Birnbaum
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05 Nov, 2013

Is Traditional Recovery the Only...

As a professional in the field of recovery or a recovering addict, have you found that traditional methods...

Sherry Gaba, LCSW...
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05 Nov, 2013

Buprenorphine: Is It All We Are...

More than 50 million Americans are currently living with chronic pain unrelated to cancer. The costs associated...

Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM
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05 Nov, 2013

Golden Buprenorphine

When I was asked to write this article about Buprenorphine, I thought, “There is so much out there on the...

James W. Golden
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05 Nov, 2013

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy — or as it is most commonly known, DBT — has become an acclaimed, evidence-based...

Alan Downs, Ph.D.
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05 Nov, 2013

Rational Thinking and Behavior Is...

The article that follows is an excerpt from my book, A Rational Workbook for Recovery From Addictions – Second...

John W. Herdman,...
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05 Nov, 2013

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