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
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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? By Peter Marinelli
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
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
