Addiction
Drugs in the Digital Age
Brad Lamm, CIP Over the last 4 years, the so-called war on drugs has literally ground to a halt as more than 300 different “˜legal highs’ flood the U.S. border. Legal highs are chemical compounds synthesized in labs that stimulate or depress the central nervous system the way that mimics banned substances such as pot,…
Read MoreWhen It’s Time to Tell the Family About Your Addiction
Brad Lamm, CIP Coming to terms with your addiction is the first step on the road to recovery. Once you’ve done that, it’s time to tell your loved ones what’s been happening. Although it’s not something we look forward to, following these guidelines will help you accomplish the next step as smoothly as possible. Write…
Read MorePill Mills Still Kill in 2015
Brad Lamm, CIP In 2011, 52 million people used prescription narcotic pain pills non-medically in the U.S., according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. That’s an increase of 20-fold in the last 20 years. Today, we are losing 45 people every day to this epidemic””more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. So when…
Read MoreA Guide to Sex Addiction
Brad Lamm, CIP In our culture, sex addiction (SA) is considered so shameful that we rarely see it depicted in our wider world. Characterized as an inability to control sexual impulses, the main symptoms include losing control and powerlessness to stop unwanted sexual behavior, even when suffering from a plethora of consequences from anxiety to…
Read MoreSmoking Weed May Be Hazardous To Your Health…
Brad Lamm, CIP Like booze, some will smoke to unwind, or for medical need, with no negative impact, but the effect of the somewhat new edible industry (candies, snacks, and drinks infused with THC, the active ingredient in marijuana) have delivered far worse consequences. The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that a single serving…
Read MoreEarly Childhood Trauma and the Disease of Addiction
Brad Lamm, CIP We know that addiction is a disease and can be treated as such. But recently, science has begun to make the association between early childhood trauma and the susceptibility to substance abuse later in life. Although I can easily make the connection between the traumatic experiences in my childhood and my substance abuse…
Read MoreThe Heroin Pandemic: Help on the Horizon
Brad Lamm, CIP A friend relapsed on heroin last week. A good person with a bum habit. He was clean for a little more than ninety days when the tug of the drug won, so his sober time went up in smoke; the high short-lived as the shame of relapse hung around to simmer. Smoke…
Read MoreMedia Mania
Brad Lamm, CIP It’s a magnet for many. All of us know someone who texts too much or, simply cannot log off social media. I am married to one who thinks posting actually calms. I would beg to differ – and do. In fact, you may be reading this on Facebook right now. There’s a…
Read MoreGood Golly, It’s Molly
Brad Lamm, CIP The New York Times reported a rash of drug overdoses at Wesleyan University in Connecticut this past Sunday. A bad batch of the drug Molly is suspected to have caused the outbreak, but what exactly is Molly and when did it become so popular? Back in the nineties, when Raves and music…
Read MoreThe Elder Addict
Brad Lamm, CIP One of our nation’s fastest growing health problems that you’ve never heard of is alcohol and prescription drug abuse among adults age 60 and over. Until recently, you’d be hard pressed to find a mere mention of it in substance abuse or gerontological literature. But how can this be when the…
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