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Montana putting treatment in reach of more addicts

One of the factors often cited as helping fuel the recent opiate epidemic is lack of access to addiction treatment services in rural areas of the United States. In Montana, one of the country’s lowest population-density states, lawmakers and other officials have been taking steps to make it easier for addicts to access treatment in […]
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Step Three – Handing Over Control

Step three, according to the AA Big Book is “made a decision to turn our will and lives over to the care of God as we understood him.” When I first went to AA and Al-Anon meetings, I was an absolute mess. I pretty much cried the whole time and I remember someone saying to […]
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The Sinclair Method: Drink your way to sober living

Dr. David Sinclair initially got inspired about a new method of alcohol treatment from the experiments of Nobel-prize winner, Ivan Pavlov. Most people are familiar with Pavlov’s experiment using dogs, providing them with a treat after sounding a bell and eventually, the dogs would salivate merely with the bell alone. Sinclair’s interest lay in the […]
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Spirituality: build your own definition

When the subject of addiction recovery is discussed and debated, one topic that often comes up is spirituality, and what it means. How spirituality is defined is a very personal choice, and one each individual makes for him or herself. It has often been said that addiction is a disease that not only affects the […]
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Study could lead to “personalized” alcoholism treatment

A new study focusing on the differences between alcohol-dependent and non-dependent brains could bring scientists closer to developing more personalized treatments for alcoholism and alcohol-use disorder. Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute, led by TSRI Prof. Marisa Roberto, had previously discovered that alcohol increases neuronal activity in an area of the brain called the central […]
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Study: hormone may help cause alcoholism

Scientists have known for years that heavy alcohol consumption can lead to imbalances and malfunctions in the hormones that regulate many bodily functions. Now, researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism have identified a hormone which may help cause alcohol use disorder, aka alcoholism. The hormone is  aldosterone, a hormone produced in […]
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Russia’s Biggest Problem ISN’T Putin

For all his meddling, threats and imperious rhetoric, Putin has certainly cast a pall over what it must be like to be a Russian in today’s political climate. But average Russians, the same as average Americans, probably aren’t nearly as concerned with politics as they are with day to day pressing issues. Russia is home […]
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