How Addictive is Heroin?
Heroin is extremely addictive but only in the right circumstances.
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Why do Addicts Relapse?
A common answer from my patients is a bad event is to blame. “My father passed away. I got laid off from my job”. In recent times, the Covid-19 epidemic is to blame. “I was working from home and started drinking more and more.” Usually a series of external random events, out of their control resulted in the relapse.
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If addiction is a disease and addicts caught with possession go to jail, does that mean we imprison them because of their disease? Can we do better? Most argue for decriminalization but some even argue for legalization. Let’s look more closely.
Most people who recognize they have an addiction and fail over and over to overcome it have come to the realization that their addiction is a power greater than themselves. Wouldn’t it make sense to recognize that their healing would also have to be a power greater than themselves. The question is what is this power?
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Are you concerned about your drug or alcohol use? Do you wonder whether or not you have a problem? Maybe your spouse, child or a relative is a concern. How much is too much?
This is how doctors define addiction:
In Medicine we differentiate between healthy substance use, substance abuse and a substance use disorder. Let’s discuss Alcohol for example.
One standard drink is the following:
Men should drink no more than 4 standard drinks in a day and less than 14 in a week.
Women should drink no more than 3 standard drinks per day and less than 7 in a week.
This is per the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse recommendation.
Are you an Alcoholic?
Sick of being sick?
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How can the brain can choose to heal?
- Step 1. Free Your Mind
- Step 2. Heal Your Mind
- Step 3. Guard Your Mind
- Step 4. Use Your Mind
- Step 5. Help Another Mind
- Step 4. Use Your Mind
- Step 3. Guard Your Mind
- Step 2. Heal Your Mind
“My brother was turning blue, he was not moving, not even breathing. I put that bag on his mouth and started squeezing air into his lungs. I could see his chest move. He finally started waking up. I didn’t have to call 911 that time,” my patient recalled.
Is Happiness not Pleasure?
We often confuse “feeling good” with “being happy”. One of these is a feeling, the other a state of being. By trying to feel good all the time we can fall into addiction…
Are you an addict?
Addiction is now defined as “Substance Use Disorder”. This new term implied that the substance in question is used to the extent that it causes problems.
Addiction? 
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