Addiction Recovery Newsletter (6/25/2010)
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Welcome to the Addiction Recovery Newsletter (6/25/2010). In this edition we have included news, articles and videos. You can find more resources on our website: RecoveryHelper.org.
Addiction Recovery News
Addiction: a loss of plasticity of the brain?
Why is it that only some drug users become addicts?Researchers have just discovered that the transition to addiction could result from a persistent impairment of synaptic plasticity in a key structure of the brain. (More)
Experts Critical of Purported Hangover Curative
A new drink debuting in France claims to reduce drunkenness and lessen hangovers but has health experts wary. (More)
Ignoring stress leads recovering addicts to more cravings
Recovering addicts who avoid coping with stress succumb easily to substance use cravings, making them more likely to relapse during recovery, according to behavioral researchers. (More)
Meta-analysis of drug-related deaths soon after release from prison
Conclusions These findings confirm that there is an increased risk of drug-related death during the first 2 weeks after release from prison and that the risk remains elevated up to at least the fourth week. (Source: Addiction) (More)
Taking care of smoker cancer patients: a review and some recommendations
A cancer patient who smokes is a very fragile person and we identify in scientific literature three main areas of clinical practice and research to develop the care of smokers with cancer. (i) Telling facts: smoking impacts on the survival and on the outcomes of surgery, chemo-, radio- and biological therapies. The aim of our intervention was to enable patients to make informed choices about smoking. (ii) Offering sensitive and effective smoking cessation like an instrument of patient empowerment to motivate change in smoker patient lifestyle. (iii) Assisting smoker patients if they develop acute nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Smoking care and nicotine replacement therapy can support temporary abstinence during the inpatient stay and providing patients with an opportunity for smoking cessat… (More)
Pat Moore Foundation Offers Sober Living Near Newport Beach
Pat Moore Foundation, located in Costa Mesa, CA, is now offering sober living near Newport Beach. The two houses are gender specific and will cater to recovering addicts who have successfully completed a thirty day alcohol and other drug treatment program. (More)
Addiction Recovery Articles
Finding the Right Treatment Option
An alcoholism treatment center is there when you need it, or when it is needed by your loved one. If you, or your loved one has made the decision to come to grips with the abuse of alcohol in your life, rehab may be an option. (More)
Information About Detox, Couseling, and After-Care
New York City, one of the most happening cities in the world is a city that stops for no one. In the fast lane of life, there are people who become successful, some get by and there are many who stagnate and languish towards non-existence. One of the vices that are prevalent in the underbelly of this city is drug abuse and addiction. New York private drug treatment centers are known to treat increasing number of heroin and marijuana cases. (More)
Work With, Not Against the Drug Addict
If you want to help a drug addicted person, you should understand that the addict knows there is something wrong. He or she does not need to hear again that the current path will lead to destruction. To really help an addict you must work together. Read more below. (More)
A.A. International Convention in San Antonio – a Giving Opportunity
A.A. International Convention in San Antonio – a Giving Opportunity Dick B. ? 2010 Anonymous. All rights reserved. For the thousands who will soon attend the A.A. International Convention in San Anto… (More)
A.A. History and Development: Five Phases Revisited
The Five Phases of Early A.A. Dick B C 2010 1935 to 1955. A.A. clearly sprang from solid Christian roots, but later hardly embodied any and acknowledged almost none by 1955. 1. The Akron Genesis… (More)
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