Access to Health Care Services for Addiction Services Will Dramatically Improve: Faces & Voices of Recovery

By Celia VimontJanuary 18, 2013 Affordable Care Act (ACA) is fully implemented in 2014, access to effective health care services for addiction will improve dramatically, according to Faces & Voices of Recovery. In an issue brief, the advocacy group describes how the new legislation will make it possible for many in or seeking recovery to…

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Recovery Using the 12 Steps

By Darlene Lancer, J.D., MFTPsychcentral.com Most therapists do not realize that the 12 Steps are not merely an antidote for addiction, but are guidelines for nothing less than a total personality transformation. Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was influenced by Carl Jung. In correspondence, Jung wrote Wilson that the cure for alcoholism would…

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Sigmund Freud’s Cocaine Problem

Dr. Howard MarkelEditor’s note: Nearly 130 years ago, cocaine was the world’s newest wonder drug – touted as a cure for everything from morphine addiction to tuberculosis. And its biggest supporter was Sigmund Freud.  Whenever Big Pharma unfurls its latest “blockbuster” drug, I am carried back to the era when the biggest wonder drug on the…

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