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A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
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The NHS could save £27m a year by changing the way it deals with alcoholic patients, new research seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme suggests.
This video is about how to stop drinking alcohol without rehab or AA. In this video I talk about the Sinclair Method, a scientifically tested and proven method to unlearn alcohol dependence using a method that facilitates pharmacological extinction.
There are a lot of stereotypes and stigma surrounding alcohol that prevent both understanding and adequate care, and the spectrum of symptoms that alcohol use disorder can include is a lot more complicated than you might think.
Dr. Jon Ebbert, an internal medicine and addiction specialist at Mayo Clinic, discusses alcohol use disorder. This interview originally aired Sept. 29, 2018.
Admitting that you, or someone you care about has a chemical-dependency problem isn’t easy. How do you know when drinking or drugs have gotten out of hand?
What really causes addiction - to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions.
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All addictions are actually a deep call for real connection. Isn’t that great to know?! It’s not that you have failed, it’s simply that you have been seeking for something real and lasting where it could never be found. All unhappiness is the same thing, no matter what form it seems to take.
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A former drug addict himself, Lewis now researches addiction. In order to get over ones addiction, he explains, self-trust is necessary. Unfortunately, self- trust is extremely difficult for an addict to achieve.
For over 30 years, Joy battled addiction. Now with four years in recovery, she tells her story.
Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.