May 19, 2012

Feelings & Realities

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Feelings don’t always reflect reality.

Promoting Self Change, Through Awareness

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Research suggests that an initial positive encouraging message may be all you need to change your substance abuse habits.  In fact, the stuff that comes later – the actual program of recovery and follow up material may not matter at all.  This is according to a study done by some of my absolute favorite researchers, [...]

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 [...]

The False Dichotomy of "Treat em or Jail em"

Stanton Peele wrote about the treatment or jail dichotomy almost 10 years ago, and what he had to say was brilliant (click the heading of this post to link to it).  Almost a decade later, the same argument is presented again and again. The argument goes like this: Drug addicts are breaking the law by [...]