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A former Director of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli is working to end this epidemic and treat people with addictions with kindness, compassion and fairness.
Current research suggests that addictionand depression are symptoms of emotional distress, not causes of it, forging the link between childhood trauma and mental illness. Margo Talbot's journey supports these studies.
Explore the science of why opioids are addictive and what can be done to reverse the growing rates of addiction and overdose.
In this video, Virginia Satir firmly but lovingly confronts a large family about their son’s longstanding substance abuse.
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.
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For over 30 years, Joy battled addiction. Now with four years in recovery, she tells her story.
Cottage Health Director of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Dr. Paul Erickson, MD, discusses the neurology behind chronic pain, opioids, and addiction. Presented at the 2017 Saving The Brain Symposium on November 3, 2017 in Santa Barbara, CA.
Ecstasy, also known as Molly or MDMA, is a popular illegal drug in the dance party scene. However, in recent months the FDA has approved its usage in clinical trials to treat PTSD.
Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.
The path of Refuge Recovery begins with the First Truth: addiction creates suffering. This is not a philosophy. It is a practice; it demands action. We must understand, acknowledge, admit, and accept all the ways addiction has caused suffering in our lives.