by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Jun 20, 2018 | Addiction, Addiction Support, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Rehab, Chapters Blog, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehab
The existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Or maybe, as William James remembered it, “We live forwards but we understand backwards”. The point is that life is...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | May 30, 2018 | Addiction, Addiction Support, Alcohol Rehab, Alcoholic, Chapters Blog, Drug Abuse
There are a series of television ads currently running in which a man in doctor’s scrubs urges you to call a number for addiction services. Lately, the ads have gotten more belligerent. The man says something like, “You know who I am. Why haven’t you...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | May 16, 2018 | Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Dual Diagnosis, Mental health, Rehab Programs
It cannot be repeated too often that about half the people with a substance use disorder also have a mental illness or, more correctly, another mental illness. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), “drug addiction is a mental...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | May 9, 2018 | Addiction, Chapters Blog, Drug Abuse
Last month a study was published—and widely written about in the media—about a medical condition associated with chronic marijuana use: scromiting. More precisely and often known as cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), the catchier name is a portmanteau word...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Apr 4, 2018 | Addiction, Chapters Blog
Advocates for legal marijuana have just received additional support that not only isn’t marijuana necessarily harmful to you, its legalization could save lives and help curtail the opioid epidemic. Two reports in JAMA Internal Medicine — one by the...
by anthonym@sunshinebh.com | Mar 28, 2018 | Addiction, Addiction Support, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Rehab, Alcoholic, Chapters Blog, Drug Abuse, Drug Rehab
Easter is a time of rebirth, renewal. Not only because it’s the Christian’s commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also because (in the northern hemisphere) it’s the early days of Spring following the vernal equinox, and the setting...