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Life long? by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Logo from the radio program This American Life (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Yesterday morning I re-posted from an article on the positive finding publication bias in ... Read on »

Hard to kill by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Nature has a new article on the troubling shelf life of bad psychology research: Positive results in psychology can behave like rumours: easy to release but har ... Read on »

Help! by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Radiolab (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I just listened to a Radiolab episode focusing on people’s attempts to control their future selves—to prevent themselves from do ... Read on »

n=8 by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism A young female guinea pig (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Published in a prestigious journal with an ‘n’ of 8. Unbelievable. Participants Eight cocaine-using adul ... Read on »

Addiction diagnoses to rise by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism I’ve posted before about problems with the proposed approach to addiction in the DSM-5. These changes were intended to clear up language problems, specifically the con ... Read on »

Science for spirituality by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Psychological Science (journal) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Whatever one thinks of AA’s spirituality, research suggests that thinking about God enhances self-control ... Read on »

“as addictive as cocaine” by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Store bought cupcakes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ha ! If I read the phrase “as addictive as cocaine” one more time I’m going to hit the bottle. Anything ... Read on »

More than two choices by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Operation Mallorca, US Drug Enforcement Administration, 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Mark Kleiman is making sense : “For every complex problem,” H.L. Menck ... Read on »

Mindfulness and recovery by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism by Ross Hill The Addiction Recovery blog at PsychCentral has a very good post explaining how mindfulness can help in addiction recovery. Read on »

Viral recovery by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin have popularized the concept of viral change. Bill White has talked about it for years in the context of transmitting hope for rec ... Read on »

Human rights and coerced treatment by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Superior Court Judge Jason Deal, right, congratulates one of three graduates, who successfully completed Dawson County’s Drug Court. A recent article looks ... Read on »

Smoking cessation in treatment by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Looks like we still have a lot to learn about helping alcoholics and drug addicts quit smoking, but intensive smoking cessation interventions do not appear to do harm : ... Read on »

Group treatment has long term benefits by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism A photo of a group conducting psychotherapy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the journal, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research : Background: Group ... Read on »

Youth Recovery Contexts by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism hands by katerha Another study brings good news about adolescents and 12 step recovery: The proportion attending 12-step meetings was relatively low acros ... Read on »

ADHD overdiagnosed by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Symptoms of ADHD described by the literature (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A recent study look at diagnostic reliability of ADHD: RESULTS: Many mental health pra ... Read on »

Racial disparities in antidepressant prescriptions by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Fluoxetine (Prozac), an SSRI (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A study on racial disparities in antidepressant prescribing: A research group at the University of Mic ... Read on »

No. 1 Littered Item in the United States is on Roads and Beaches? by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism …cigarette butts are the No. 1 littered item every year on U.S. roadways and beaches. It had to be about 19 years ago that I flicked a cigarette butt to the ... Read on »

Sentences to ponder by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Various pills (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What lessons does this have to offer addiction and psychiatric treatment? Last year 41 million colds were erroneously ... Read on »

Harsh enforcement has failed by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism drug policy by mmcrae01 This Foreign Policy article provides a concise snapshot of the failure of the “harsh enforcement” approach to drug policy: As a domesti ... Read on »

Emotional pain without context by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism MRI coronal view of the hippocampus (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Siddhartha Mukherjee provides a brief history of the serotonin hypothesis of depression , its demise ... Read on »

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