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Mental Illness – What You Need to Know by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Mental Illness Awareness Week 2012 is October 7 – 13. Why should each of us individually care? What can we do as individuals? The Significant Statistics Related to Mental ... Read on »

Yoga and the 12 Steps by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Yoga and the 12 steps? Really? If you’ve been following this blog, you know that treating addiction (and secondhand drinking, aka codependency, for that matter) is all abo ... Read on »

Suboxone – a Substitute Addiction or Treatment Aid? by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Suboxone is one of three medication options used to medically assist opioid addicts with treating their addiction. Because addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain di ... Read on »

Substance Abuse Prevention Month by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Substance Abuse Prevention – October 1 marks the beginning of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month – a national celebration coordinated by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and ... Read on »

AA – a Skeptic’s Guide to the 12-Steps of AA by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism AA – What is it really about? How does a person get involved? How can it help? For one person’s experiences and answers, please read the following guest post by A.J. Adams ... Read on »

Prescription Drugs – What’s the Big Deal? by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Prescription drugs – they’re medicine – so what if a person takes them differently than prescribed? This is a common question. Not only that, but many people believe abusi ... Read on »

Behind Every Alcoholic or Drug Addict is a Family Member or Two or Three… by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism We often forget that behind every alcoholic or drug addict is a family member — often several family members — spouses, parents, children, siblings, grandparents, aunts an ... Read on »

Addiction Treatment – First Step is to Get Addiction Out of the Closet by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction treatment – Dr. Herby Bell shares his thoughts on what needs to happen to “break that 25% success rate glass ceiling in addiction treatment.” The following is a ... Read on »

Addiction a Brain Disease? But How? by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction a brain disease? “No way,” or some variation thereof, is the typical reaction, I hear. Followed by something along the lines of, “Cancer is a disease. All they h ... Read on »

Face of Recovery – Meet Carolyn Hughes by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction Recovery – there is a great deal of confusion, stigma, shame and discrimination surrounding addiction, addiction treatment and addiction recovery. Yet those who ... Read on »

Codependent Children – What Can Parents Do? by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Codependent children — one of the tragic outcomes in families with untreated, undiagnosed, unhealthily discussed substance abuse and/ addiction. Darlene Lancer shares valu ... Read on »

Yoga And Addiction Recovery: How Yoga Helps Recovery And How It Prevents Relapse by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction recovery – there are may ways to recover from an addiction and maintain a healthy, enjoyable life in sobriety. Yoga is one that helps tremendously as Kyczy Hawk ... Read on »

Addiction Impacts Lives of Millions and Costs Billions by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction is so deeply shrouded in secrecy, discrimination and shame in America [and I cite America for the sake of the statistics used, however similar realities exist ar ... Read on »

The War on Drugs – Rethinking the Approach by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism The War on Drugs – is it time to rethink our approach? The following is a guest post by Kalen Smith, who writes on behalf of drug-rehab.org, a nonprofit substance abuse re ... Read on »

Extreme Intervention – Whatever It Takes by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Extreme intervention – “the concept is that nothing is off limits to facilitate cutting the ties between the addict and their drug.” The following is a guest post by Steps ... Read on »

Teenage Drug | Alcohol Abuse and Experimentation – What Should Parents Do? by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Teenage drug | alcohol abuse and experimentation are often viewed as something all kids do – a phase – something the teen will outgrow. But is it? And if it’s not, what sh ... Read on »

The Eighth Step – Building the Bridge to Home by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism The eighth step of AA – Tim Cheney, co-founder of Chooper’s Guide, shares his thoughts. Tim’s thoughts on the first 7 steps of AA are linked below this post. The following ... Read on »

Alcohol | Drug Abuse and Addiction – Diagnosing With the Help of SPECT by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Alcohol | drug abuse and addiction – sometimes a picture – a SPECT scan – speaks a thousand words. Using SPECT as one component in a clinical evaluation can greatly help w ... Read on »

Addiction Treatment – Using the Body to Heal the Mind by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction treatment – there is no one nor “right” way to treat the disease of addiction. The following is a guest post by Herby Bell, a practicing chiropractor for over 30 ... Read on »

Addiction Recovery – One Step at a Time by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Alcoholism Addiction recovery – taking it one step at a time reduces the fear and worry over whether it can really be done. The following is a guest post by Hyrum Taffer, a freelance ... Read on »

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