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Healing from Addiction? Supplement the Process with These 4 Herbs

By Amy Jirsa — 2020

Addiction can take many forms, from drug and alcohol abuse to eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and chronic bingeing and/or exercising.

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Addiction treatment had failed. Could brain surgery save him?

After nearly two decades of hardcore drug addiction — after overdoses and rehabs and relapses, homelessness and dead friends and ruined lives — Gerod Buckhalter had one choice left, and he knew it.

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Lenny Bernstein
2021
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Picking Addiction Help (Part 2)

Addiction is now recognized to be a chronic illness that lurks indefinitely within an addict in recovery.

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Jane E. Brody
2013
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Compulsive Gambling Is an Illness to Which I Lost Nearly Everything. Nearly.

They say that while we are in recovery our addiction is doing pushups in the parking lot. Thirteen years after quitting drinking and because I had been living an unrealistic version of recovery- my addiction was Hulk strong and waiting.

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Jodie Nealley
2015
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Brainspotting for Addiction Treatment: Everything You Need to Know

If you’ve felt at a standstill with your progress in other therapies, brainspotting can dig deeper. For others, you may find other issues you’ve never confronted before.

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Next Step Recovery Team
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Do-It-Yourself Addiction Cures?

In 1982 Stanley Schachter, an eminent social psychologist then at Columbia University, unleashed a storm of controversy in the addictions field by publishing an article showing that most former smokers and overweight people he interviewed had changed successfully without treatment.

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Hal Arkowitz, Scott O. Lilienfeld
2008
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This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused?

Steven Kelty had been addicted to crack cocaine for 32 years when he tried a different kind of treatment last year, one so basic in concept that he was skeptical.

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Abby Goodnough
2020
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Effective Addiction Treatment (Part 1)

People typically do more research when shopping for a new car than when seeking treatment for addiction.

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Jane E. Brody
2013
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Long-Term Strategies for Overcoming Addiction

Long-term recovery is not a final destination, but an ongoing process of facing and coping with life without retreating into addictive behaviors.

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Elizabeth Hartney
2020
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In Addiction Recovery, a Matter of the Mind

Mindfulness holds promise as a treatment for those struggling to curb their substance misuse, researchers say.

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Katelyn Newman
2020
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Addiction

All addictions have the capacity to induce a sense of hopelessness and feelings of failure, as well as shame and guilt, but research documents that recovery is the rule rather than the exception.

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Psychology Today Content Team
2020
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