Staying on message in the liquor biz. “Our national drug is alcohol,” wrote William S. Burroughs. “We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.” This emotional loophole in the psyche has been skillfully manipulated by the alcohol and tobacco industries ever since modern advertising was invented. Recently, the European Alcohol ….
Read more ›Another look at “behavioral addictions” and the DSM-V. The DSM-V, when it debuts it 2012, is set to replace the category of “Substance-Related Disorders” with a new category entitled “Addiction and Related Disorders.” Gambling is the only behavioral addiction currently recommended for inclusion, but some experts have set their sights on shoplifting-an activity that is even ….
Read more ›Filling the void between “doing nothing and formal treatment.” Good news for recovering addicts and addiction experts in Los Angeles: Dr. Adi Jaffe, a well-known addiction psychologist from UCLA and a longtime friend of Addiction Inbox, is kicking off a new venture: the A3 Academy. Dr. Jaffe, who runs the All About Addiction website, and ….
Read more ›Maybe it’s not such a bad theory after all. The brain, as always, bats last. It compensates, reregulates, and adjusts. One of the major ways it accomplishes this is through the neuroadaptive phenomenon called downregulation. When we take drugs continuously, the brain compensates for the artificial flood of, or sensitivity to, serotonin, dopamine, and other ….
Read more ›He wasn’t 27. He was 47. I’m 48. He wasn’t some musical prodigy or trendsetter. But he will be remembered. Because I am right now. I used to have a CD by his band. Me and my friends even laughed back then at how “hair bandy” they were. But we liked the music and we thought it was cool ….
Read more ›A 43-year-old man led police on a low-speed chase through the streets of Fort Worth recently, while driving a forklift. Timothy Raines raced down Interstate 30 before police caught up with him. Fortunately for us, part of the incident was captured and uploaded to YouTube. Police claim that Raines stole the forklift from a nearby ….
Read more ›The recovering addicts who set out to climb Mt. Ranier made it. See original post for more of their story. On August 13th, four out of the five men from our New Creation’s program made it to the summit of Mt. Rainier, along with two Emmy award-winning television journalists, John Sharify and Doug Burgess, who ….
Read more ›One of my favorite sayings from AA is “you can’t control people, places, or things”. But the flipside of this is also very important; as the serenity prayer states… the power to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. Here is a great list of things you can control that ….
Read more ›I subscribe to several google alerts to keep me abreast on news regarding alcoholism, recovery, and addiction. There are three topics I see all the time that I ignore and delete almost automatically – oil addiction, Jane’s Addiction, and Internet Addiction. However, I believe the time has come to give IA (Internet Addiction) a little more of my attention. While stories of ….
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