Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
The Lifecycle of Addiction and Recovery Addiction problems seem to be something that comes to everyone’s attention because of the crises that it causes. Possibly the first few crisis situations pass by and are excused to circumstances but soon enough of a series of crisis shows there is a deeper problem. At the time that […]
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Tags: intervention, recovery, relapse
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
Not so long ago Alcoholics Anonymous was regarded with condescension by many professionals working in the addiction field. A common view was that science-based techniques, like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) had made the Anonymous Fellowships seem like a quaint and outmoded quasi-religious cult. At the same time, there were encouraging signs of scientific method being […]
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Tags: AA, abstinence, Addiction Treatment, anonymous fellowships, CBT, co-morbidity, depression, major depression, Professor Stephenson, recovery, substance use
Monday, October 15th, 2012
‘Natural recovery’ is a term used to describe recovery from addiction without the help of professionals. It’s a term that rather implies there’s something unnatural about the professional or even AA route. However, other terms that have been used are also problematic, given that they all embody an explanation of the phenomenon that is open to question. For example, Tuchfield (1981) was one of the first to describe what he called “spontaneous recovery”, although the recovery his alcohol dependent respondents described were generally the product of a sense of shame that had grown over a long period of time, even if the ultimate decision was sudden.
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Tags: addictive behaviour, Alcohol Dependence, assessing dependency, Boscloo, Christo, DSM IV, klingemann, maturing out, Najman, Natural recovery, NESDA, professional treatment, Professor Stephenson, recovery, self-change, spontaneous recovery, treatment strategy, Tuchfield
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Can something so seemingly harmless and widely available really be so bad for us? The answer is yes. Sugar is not just bad for us; in reality eating too many refined sugars too often is one of the root causes of many of the chronic health conditions hitting new heights in western cultures including type […]
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Tags: anorexia, bulimia, eating disorders, food education, healthy diet, mental health, miles kasiri, nutrition, nutritional therapist, overeating, recovery, refined sugars, sugar, sugar addiction, sugar cravings, whole foods
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
A couple of weeks ago (16th August, on BBC3; “Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery”), Russell Brand launched a hard-hitting attack on conventional approaches to drug addiction: first, he lambasted the view of right wing tabloid commentators who favour the view that addicts recklessly and freely abuse drugs, and could as easily choose differently. And […]
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Tags: addiction, addiction committee, addictive behaviour, addictive substances, cognitive psychology, drug addiction, emotional craving, government, medical drugs, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, research, Russell Brand, self-justification, self-licensing