Ken Kesey and His Merry Band of Pranksters Search for a Cool Place “In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of ….
Read more ›The chemistry of sorrow during nicotine withdrawal. When you smoke a cigarette, nicotine pops into acetylcholine receptors in the brain, the adrenal glands, and the skeletal muscles, and you get a nicotine rush. Just like alcohol, a cigarette alters the transmission of several important chemical messengers in the brain.“These are not trivial responses,” said Professor ….
Read more ›You’re free to write off the cost of addiction treatment-if you can afford to. The cost of addiction treatment is a legitimate medical expense, as long as you are talking about drug and alcohol addiction, which the IRS recognizes as a genuine medical disease. If you go to Betty Ford on the advice of your ….
Read more ›I have really struggled of late to write something here that was more than drivel about drug busts, celebrity rehab, or same ole same ole AA wisdom (not dissing it, just saying). So I’ve been perusing the web and my mind for hours for insight into something new or meaningful that relates to recovery. But ….
Read more ›How will Washington insiders handle the pressure of our current economic crisis? A new report indicates they have a tendency to turn toward the bottle more than any one else in the country. According to a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 8.1 percent of adults age 26 or older in ….
Read more ›What’s more difficult than climbing the highest peak in the land … getting sober. I found this great video about 7 men in recovery who were planning and training for a summit of Mount Rainier in Washington. They start the journey yesterday and are on their way up today if all is going to plan. As you can ….
Read more ›“Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it.” In America in the late 1800s, curing alcoholism was a serious business-and for Dr. Leslie Keeley, a very lucrative one. Dozens of clinics and cures already existed, and some treatment centers had even experimented with franchising. For the late 19th Century alcoholic in search of treatment, ….
Read more ›Do you remember MTV’s Celebrity Death Match? This is one I wish they would do. I’m not a big fan of either Stanton or Rush. I think they both have valid points… sometimes, but as whole find them both disagreeable to my nature. It’s not as much as what they say sometimes; but how they ….
Read more ›More proof that my nebulous HP is for real. That’s him peeking from behind the clouds – The pic is actually a rare rainbow cloud seen over the skies of Ethiopia. Known as Pileus clouds, these clouds only form when the convective current is strong enough and the upper atmosphere has enough water in it to ….
Read more ›A rift in the addiction treatment community over abstinence. What is harm reduction? How does it differ from the approaches traditionally associated with drug recovery and rehab? Originally, I became interested in harm reduction because its advocates were highlighting the folly of prison terms over treatment for drug addicts-a sentiment with which I wholeheartedly agree. ….
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