For the first time in history, a country - New Zealand - has created a regulatory agency to oversee recreational drugs. If implemented carefully, New Zealand's new laws offer the first genuinely scientific and public health-oriented approach to dealing with the negative aspects of drugs. → No...
having entered rehab in the early 2000s. “Losing my family, that was the thing that scared me so much, that was the bottom I hit, that my family is going to go away because of my behaviors that I brought home from the road,” hetold Joe...
A recent New Zealand study showed how disulfiram effectively removes one of the most annoying features of being an alcoholic — the endless internal arguments and conversations that patients have with themselves almost every minute of the day about whether they should or shouldn’t drink. Some ...
Douglas and Lowe went to rehab for alcohol issues, and the press reported it as sex addiction. For the co-sex addict idea, see Carnes 2011. The quotes are taken from a book more critical of this notion of co-dependency: Steffens and Means 2010, pp. 24–25. Once-a-day does not ...
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It was normal for people in her rehab to smoke cigarettes and drink sugary energy drinks, so she did the same. For the first time in her life, Whitney began gaining weight and by six months sober had gained 30 pounds. At this time, she was in a sober living house, which provided ...