Using a Drug to Treat Drug Addiction? Some Say it Could Work The latest and greatest in the treatment of drug addiction has recently come in the form of another drug. That is, according to Jaymen Johnson, owner of OMM Alternative—a medical marijuana healthcare facility in Colorado Springs. About Medicinal ... Read More
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Getting Sober In Your 20’s
Updated February 28, 2023 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,” wrote Charles Dickens in his famous novel A Tale of Two Cities. He could also be describing what it’s like to be in your 20s. When you’re young with your whole life in front of ... Read More
Top 10 Most Realistic Movies About Addiction
Popular culture has a tendency to make light of difficult situations like addiction. Addiction and substance abuse in particular are difficult subjects when it comes to Hollywood. Producers, actors, directors, and writers sometimes have a hard time walking the fine line between telling the real story and glamorizing ... Read More
When God Shows Up God Shows Up! By Peter Marinelli
So often we think when God works in our life or if God talks to us it will be in some spectacular way. Perhaps He will and does more often than we think or acknowledge. However it seems more often God will reveal Himself in subtle ways. It’s that quiet voice or that intuitiveness that tells us something and ... Read More
Enough Already: When Will This Country Treat Addiction?
There is much debate going on about the question of having choice or not when it comes to chemical addiction. At the time of this writing, there is a heroin pandemic that has hit the country. Treatment centers, drug courts and jails are packed. Overdoses have increased four and five fold. And yet, sadly, those seeking ... Read More
Drug Rehab Is Just the Beginning – Actor’s Death Proves Addiction Recovery Is a Lifelong Process
Oscar-winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who was acclaimed for the depth of his abilities, lost his battle with addiction early this month even though he had been to drug rehab many times. Authorities found the 46-year-old actor dead in his home in Manhattan of an apparent overdose. Police found two bags of heroin ... Read More
Neuroscientist Finds Direct Link Between Stimulus-Response Learning and Addiction
Could Stimulus Response Learning and Addiction be Connected? We don't have to be told that we engage in activities that bring us pleasure because naturally we all do that. In addiction, the pleasure seeking activities involve alcohol and/or a drug that gets us high. When you ask a cocaine or heroin user about their ... Read More
Lamar Odom Checks Into Rehab
NBA Basketball star Lamar Odom hasn’t had an easy life with having to deal with a heroin addict for a father. Then when he was twelve his mother died of colon cancer, which left him in the care of his grandmother. At the height of his NBA career, Odom won two NBA championships with the L.A Lakers and was named NBA ... Read More
