Friday, January 07, 2011

Walk Away from Temptation

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The singer Paul Simon's composition, "There Must be Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover," also holds true for leaving your addictiv...
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Drug Mafioso Heads Afghan Anti-Narcotics Ministry

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai nominated, and the Afghan Parliament overwhelmingly approved, the appointment of Zarar Ahmad Moqbel as Ministe...
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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Alcohol: The Most Anti-Social Drug

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This week's Lancet , the British medical journal, drives a silver spike into the heart of the undead myth that alcohol is the lubricant ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Motivating Motivation

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[Originally posted on hellowellness.in on Oct. 29 2010] Everyone concerned with addiction recovery knows the importance of motivation.  ...

Sliding into Iraqistan

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[Originally posted 29 Oct 2010 on hellowellness.in ] Drug use among the Karzai government forces in Afghanistan is old news.  That countr...

Recover and Be Killed

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[Originally published 29 Oct 2010 on hellowellness.in ] Trying to get clean and sober is a pathway to a new life in most places, but in s...

Pain Relief Without Addiction: Walking the Tightrope

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[Originally published on hellowellness.in on 29 Oct. 2010] Roger T., a middle-aged systems analyst, showed up at a LifeRing recovery suppo...

If Alcohol Were Invented Today

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[Originally posted on hellowellness.in 29 Sept 2010] The word 'alcohol' was coined around 1540 by an Arabic chemist to describe t...

The Easiest Way to Quit: Don't Start

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[Originally posted on hellowellness.in 29 Sept. 2010] The placid canal that winds through Paris' Tenth Arrondissement is a social ga...

The Drive to Thrive

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[Originally published Sept. 4 2010 on hellowellness.in] The great majority of young people who experience the death of a parent, divorce, ...

Stone Sober -- and Absolutely Fascinating

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[Originally published Sept. 4 2010 on hellowellness.in] Jerry was at dinner with his ex-wife and his 12-year old daughter.  A fragile we...

Exercise for the Choice Muscle

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[Originally posted Sept. 4 2010 on hellowellness.in] My friend Alex saw the Light.  He made the Big Decision not to drink any more.  Eve...

Stiffness of the Mind

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[Originally posted Sept. 4 2010 on hellowellness.in] If the brain is like a muscle, then the onset of addiction is like rheumatism -- a g...
Friday, October 01, 2010

Genetics: DNA Causation Unravels

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In several earlier posts here , I quoted from scientific journals reporting on the findings of modern genetic research -- or rather, the sur...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Some Progress on Campus

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I happened to be visiting Ramapo College in New Jersey the other evening and, in a hallway outside a counseling office, passed this displ...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Empowering Your Sober Self -- the Class

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As I noted here earlier , Prof. Arthur McCullough in Belfast announced a class on Empowering People Against Addictions at Queens University...