OBSESSIONS CAN’T STOP, WON’T STOP The ultimate distraction. (Unsplash/Jacob Ufkes via CC0) WRITTEN BY Tony Rao Visiting Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, King’s College London [...]
Electronic gadgetry and social media have become part of all of our lives. Everyone is “doing it” to some degree or another. I believe we all benefit from being conscious and cautious about [...]
In many ways, from the outside perspective, my life looked perfect. I had a beautiful family, I went to a private girls school and I was really sporty. But I was the youngest of three girls. My [...]
By Catharine Paddock PhDPublished Wednesday 7 June 2017 718 The results of a new study have shown that even moderate alcohol intake can have a negative impact on cognitive health. A new study [...]
The vaccine has effectively stopped monkeys from feeling the effects of heroin (Credit: fotomaximum/Depositphotos) While it may not be possible to cure actual heroin addiction via a simple [...]
According to partners of Foundations Recovery Network, pet or animal therapy for treating mental health disorders in substance abusers may make avoiding relapse a lot easier for sufferers of [...]
ACOAs are 3-4 times more likely than non-ACOAs to select partners who are alcoholic. It is estimated that there are 28.6 million children of alcoholics (COAs) in the United States, with more than [...]
Following is an article published by the New York Times that we thought might be of interest in case you did not get a chance to read it. Michael Barrett and Jenna Mulligan, emergency paramedics [...]
May 2017 | By: Patricia Rosen Kurt Angle is more than one of the greatest Professional Wrestlers of all time. He’s a living Legend. And for the past four years, he’s been in recovery for opioid [...]
A quite smart, talented and successful 35-year-old woman had a fear of elevators, so she avoided them although she recognized that her fear was irrational. After learning to lower her anxiety [...]