May 19, 2012

Review of a SMART Recovery Meeting

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SMART is a great alternative to 12-step and conventional treatment programs for addiction, alcoholism, substance use, and substance abuse problems. Read my review of a recent meeting here.

Review of the Jude Thaddeus Home Program

This is the best self-help book available for substance use problems, check out my review.

Huffpo Talks Sense on Email Addiction

The addiction term gets thrown around quite a bit, and what I’m starting to notice as I cull through google results, is that when people are talking about the non-substance-related addictions, they usually speak quite rationally.  I think we can learn more helpful, genuinely useful ideas to apply to the problems of drug & alcohol [...]

Opium Addiction Fuels Afghan Chaos (or is it the other way around?)

The title of this post links to a BBC article about opium use in Afghanistan.  I think the article has a very telling and honest tone which I hear constantly when people talk about addiction.  When people talk about addiction and why substance abuse happens they often list the dismal life circumstances of the abuser, the [...]