Pharmacology’s making it easier to stop drinking. As anyone familiar with alcoholism knows, getting alcohol out of the body is only the bare beginning. The reason alcoholics often return to drinking is due to the psychological obsession with alcohol, the ongoing craving for alcohol…
Science is learning more and more about the biological damage to the brain caused by alcoholism, and there are more and more medical treatments to help ameliorate the damage. The biological damage is the easiest to understand. The alcoholic mind is harder to understand. What’s difficult to…
Understanding recovery management is a critical component of addiction treatment. Too many people who receive treatment for alcoholism or some other drug addiction believe they are “well” after 4 to 8 weeks of abstinence — they’ve gained insight about themselves and their addiction and they will…
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