PROMIS Clinics has long been known for incorporating the latest proven treatment methodologies into its plethora of intensive and bespoke programmes surrounding the treatment of addiction and other mental health issues. The latest addition as part of the supportive treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction is the Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation, also known as CES, which […]

For a long time, when dealing with depression, psychotherapy has worked with the past and psychology has worked with the present to manage symptoms. More recently some therapies have begun to look into the future for a solution.

Two weeks ago a young man in Northern Ireland died of liver failure. 22 Year old Gareth Anderson had previously featured in newspapers at 19 when he had been refused a liver transplant because he had been unable to go 6 months without a drink. Tragically he clearly didn’t want to die and was obviously […]

It seems that what you eat isn’t as important as when you eat it. New research by Satchindananda Panda, at the Salk Institute in California, has found that mice who ate a high fat diet in an 8 hour eating window didn’t gain weight but other mice who were able to eat this same diet […]

It’s amazing the impact that music has on us. A song on the radio often seems to have the ability to take us right back to a specific place in time and soon we can find ourselves feeling all the emotions that went with that event. Surprisingly little is understood about the exact pathways that […]

Russell Brand urges MPs to change drug laws to treat addiction as health issue not criminal. Mr Brand has recently asked for “honesty and authenticity” at the Home Affairs Select Committee on addiction to which he was invited, something massively lacking around the subject of drugs and addiction from all quarters. Ask people their opinions […]

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