Monday, May. 10th 2010
The current director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has made a name for herself by trying to use brain scans to prove that addiction is an incurable brain disease. Despite being a flawed theory, the most damaging part of this is that is the message that is drilled down to other policy [...]
Monday, Mar. 15th 2010
What do you think of when someone says the word ‘holistic’? If you’re like most people then it is probably something similar to this definition from dictionary.com: identifying with principles of holism in a system of therapeutics, esp. one considered outside the mainstream of scientific medicine, as naturopathy or chiropractic, and usually involving nutritional measures. [...]
Monday, Feb. 22nd 2010
If you go online looking for addiction treatment programs, most likely you will find a large number of California rehab centers. One of the reasons is because of the climate, but also there are more relaxed regulations for drug and alcohol rehabs there. Private companies, individuals and non-profit organizations can open up small, 6-bed drug [...]
Monday, Feb. 8th 2010
If you checked out the main website of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), you would see pictures of the brain everywhere. Even their director, Dr. Volkow, often poses by screenshots of brain scans in most of her pictures. Doesn’t this seem to be just a bit off the mark? It does to us. [...]
Thursday, Jan. 21st 2010
This is an artcle from JoinTogether online regarding an uterly impractial study that only a disease-mongering mental health nut would worry about, because in their traditional field of practice they promote that people are not responsible for their own actions and not able to take back control over their lives but instead must be given drugs to [...]
Wednesday, Dec. 16th 2009
Over the many years that we have been helping people locate drug rehabs throughout the country, an increasing number of addicts and family members have been searching for non 12 step rehabs. The reasons for this may vary, but often times it is either because they have had numerous unsuccessful attempts at traditional programs, or [...]