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Brain change: New frontiers in addiction recovery
There's been a lot of exciting programming on public television lately about our brains and how we can change them.
Years ago, after writing my fourth addiction recovery book Escape from Nicotine Country: How to Stop Smoking Painlessly (quitnicotinenow.net), I'd - a few years later - toyed with titles for a new book project about recovery from all addictions.
Brain Change and Romancing Liz were two titles I came up with and still may use (along with explanatory subtitles). Harking back to ...
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Expert & Community Posts
Fighting addiction: Developing a program that meets your needs
By Jim Christopher , Health Expert...Moving Beyond the 12-Steps champions diversity in addiction recovery and I heartily recommend... Read more »
Stop Smoking: Self-Empowerment and Old Fashioned Elbow Grease
By Jim Christopher , Health Expert...Secular Organizations for Sobriety, a self-empowerment addiction recovery group founded over 23... Read more »
Why We Need Annoying Ex-Smokers
By Jim Christopher , Health Expert...place.Many years before, Ed Batis, a colleague in the addiction recovery field, had commented... Read more »
Stop Smoking Now to Enjoy the Still New Year!
By Jim Christopher , Health Expert...including opportunities to offer SOS self-empowerment addiction-recovery group meetings at a new... Read more »
Former Smoker Jim Christopher Joins our Community as an Expert
By Jim Christopher , Health Expert...wish to complete my introduction, dear smoker-in-addiction and smoker-in-recovery, by sharing... Read more »
Health Guide
Sexual Addiction
...Aviel Goodman, M.D., Psychiatric Times “For Addicts”, 2005, Mar 8, Author Unknown, Sexual Addiction Recovery Resources “Sex Addiction FAQ”, 2006, Author Unknown, Society for... Read more »Pornography Addiction
...pornography with the click of a button, they can access more extreme sexual content easily. Pornography addiction is seen more often in males than in females, although this certainly does... Read more »Stress Part 9: Can Bad For You Be Good For You?
...life-spans than the general population. But clearly, a lot more is going on than a simple craving or an addiction. Otherwise, most of us (I have never smoked) would have quit years ago.So what is... Read more »Stress Part II: When the Brain Overreacts
...distant future. The take-home message for us in the here and now is that the brain science informs our recovery. We don’t have to understand the brain science. It is enough that we simply... Read more »Stress Part 8: Working With Anxiety
...as Valium and more recent entries such as Xanax and Ativan. Because of their potential for abuse and addiction, they are generally prescribed on a PRN, or as-needed, basis.Dumb meds strategy is... Read more »Images
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Understanding Nicotine Addition
August 14, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When a person tries a cigarette for the first time, he is either completely turned off by it or he becomes quickly addicted.... Read summary »
New Treatment for Addicts?
August 18, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Disrupting drug-associated memories may prevent drug addicts from relapsing. New research from the University of Cambridge... Read summary »
Beating Drug Addiction
September 04, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Beating drug addiction is a long, difficult road. But it may be easier for cocaine users than others because of what cocaine... Read summary »
Treating Obesity as an Addiction?
August 28, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Using a drug designed to fight drug addiction may be helpful in combating obesity. Vigabatrin, a drug designed as a potential... Read summary »
Is Smoking in Our Genes?
August 20, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A person's reaction to his or her first taste of nicotine is linked to a particular genetic variation, according to a new... Read summary »
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