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Continue reading →: Why a “Spiritual Solution” to a Neurobiological Disease?
Originally posted on Inside The Alcoholic Brain: In the first in a series of blogs we discuss the topic of why does the solution to one’s alcoholism and addiction require a spiritual recovery. This is a much asked question within academic research, although the health benefits of meditation are well…
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Continue reading →: Thinking You Are Bullet Proof might just Kill You.
Alcohol seemed to fortify me, make me stronger limbed, heroic, thrusting and invincible. With alcohol in me I communed with the Gods. The blood seemed to flow around my body better, muscles seemed to get enhanced. I was less inhibited, funnier, nicer, more humane, better company. I looked on the…
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Continue reading →: Inability to make fine-grained distinctions regarding negative emotions prompts impulsivity.
When I first came into recovery I was assigned a task which has gone on to shape much of my thinking about my alcoholism and addiction. I was prompted by my wife to sit with my emotions, that is, to sit in one place beside my wife and not suddenly…
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Continue reading →: “I don’t know how I feel, therefore I act!”
One of my pet hates in experimental study is researchers suggesting that one can generalise findings from a non-clinical group of participants in a particular study to a clinical group, not in the study. For example, most studies in Psychology and in Neuroscience are conducted on very well informed, healthy…
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Continue reading →: That “Warm Glow” of the First Drink Might Take You To Hell!
In a recent blog we looked at the possibility that those with a positive family history of alcoholism, experience a heightened stimulant response to alcohol in addition to a blunted response to more negative impairing effects. In other words sons and daughters of alcoholics at risk for later alcoholism appear to…
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Continue reading →: The ability to ‘hold one’s liquor’ indicates risk of developing alcohol problems
When I was starting out on my drinking career around 14/15 years old, I prided myself on my ability to hold my drink or as they say in the US to hold my liquor. It made me feel like a man for some reason especially as I could easily drink…
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Continue reading →: Addictionland
I am delighted to say I have been invited to be an “Addiction Expert” with Addictionland and will be the expert blogger for the month of December 2014. So check me out there as well.
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Continue reading →: Do Gambling addicts have emotional difficulties?Gambling behaviours, therefore, seem to be associated with a deficit in self-control processes that may be exacerbated by reliance on coping styles characterized by avoidance and escape.
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Continue reading →: Gambling with America’s health!
Here I simply repost a very comprehensive review of the costs of gambling in the USA – “Gambling with America’s Health” – THE PUBLIC HEALTH COSTS OF LEGAL GAMBLING this was written by ELAINE MEYER This article cites my friend and author Catherine Townsend-Lyon who discusses her personal experience of gambling addiction.…
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Continue reading →: How does the First Drink really get you Drunk?
In treatment circles, I have constantly heard the refrain “one is not enough and two is too many!” and “the first drink gets you drunk” which points to a difficulty certain people have with stopping once they start drinking; a “loss of control” over drinking. It is as if drinking…
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