The Myth of Reward: Why Addiction Isn’t About the High
Addiction is a complex disease. Moreover, the extra struggles associated with addiction (i.e., easy relapse, substance-induced cognitive deficits, and comorbid mental health…
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Ask the LifeQuake Doctor
Dear Dr Toni, I’ve been in the advertising business for more than twenty years, longer than any sane person ever stays. I’m…
Harm Reduction, Safe-Injection Sites, and Naloxone
Safe-injection sites, also known as supervised injection facilities, fix rooms, safer-injection facilities, drug-consumption facilities, or medically supervised centers were first developed in…
Legal Cannabis: Does it Intersect with Recovery?
HIV was a crisis of the magnitude never before seen in America. It was a tangle of issues, many of which were…
Managing Persistent or Residual Symptoms
In my previous column I discussed the daily challenges shared by clients in co-occurring disorders treatment groups that I regularly conduct in…