rehab Articles
More Hard Facts About Addiction Treatment
Sunday, March 24th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Yes, we take your insurance. Recent reportage, such as Anne Fletchers book, Inside Rehab, has documented the mediocre application of vague and questionable procedures in many of the nations addiction rehab centers. You would not think the addiction treatment industry had much pol... Read more
Addiction Rehab: Everything is Broken
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Down the rabbit hole in search of effective treatment. When I first began researching drugs and addiction years ago, a Seattle doctor told me something memorable. Its as if you had cancer, she said, and your doctors sole method of treatment consisted of putting you in a weekly se... Read more
How to Kick Everything
Sunday, February 24th, 2013 by Dirk Hanson
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Christopher Kennedy Lawford on recovery. Christopher Kennedy Lawfords ambitious, one-size-fits-all undertaking is titled Recover to Live Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction Your Self-Treatment Guide to Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Hoarding, Smoking, Sex, and Porn.... Read more
Broken Treatment: How the Addiction Industry is Failing its Clients
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 by Dirk Hanson
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Its not medical. It's not psychiatric. What is it 1. Most clinicians who treat addicted patients are counselors, not physicians; thus they cannot prescribe medication and they generally dont believe in the use of medication for addictive disorders. 2. Most patients have medical i... Read more
John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”
Saturday, July 21st, 2012 by Dirk Hanson
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The penal colonys prime scribe. Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness. John Berryman, 1971 A year before he committed suicide by jumping off a Minneapolis bridge in 1972, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman had been in alcohol rehab three times, an... Read more
Interview with Deni Carise, Chief Clinical Officer of Phoenix House
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 by Dirk Hanson
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Why addiction treatment worksif you let it. This time around, our Five-Question Interview series features clinical psychologist Deni Carise, senior vice president and chief clinical officer at Phoenix House, a leading non-profit drug treatment organization with more than 100 prog... Read more
The Future of Addiction Treatment
Sunday, February 12th, 2012 by Dirk Hanson
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Is there some way out of here Addictions are chronic diseases. They may require a lifetime of treatment. After a number of severe episodes of alcohol or drug abuse, the brain may be organically primed for more of the same. Long-term treatment is sometimes, if not always, the most... Read more
The Strange and Secret Keeley Cure for Addiction
Sunday, September 11th, 2011 by Dirk Hanson
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Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it. In America in the late 1800s, curing alcoholism was a serious businessand for Dr. Leslie Keeley, a very lucrative one. Dozens of clinics and cures already existed, and some treatment centers had even experimented with franchising. For t... Read more
Neck Surgery: Your last resort...
Saturday, July 16th, 2011 by Nav Gill
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If you are suffering from severe pain due to a spinal problem, you would do almost anything to get relief and get it quickly. However, it is so important to make decisions about your health after knowing all the facts and all the options. Whether you are a candidate for surgery o... Read more
Tempo Training and Injury Recovery
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Andrew Heffernan
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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I'm recovering from a shoulder injury at present. Rehab is going well; I'm being smart about activities and being careful to do lots of prerehab type moves to put it back on the mend. A couple of observations. Today I learned that rep speed is real... Read more