Addiction Medicine

More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s. In Opioid Reckoning, Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of the crisis through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use, treatment, recovery, and loss, Sullivan exposes the devastating effects of a one-size-fits-all approach toward treatment of opioid dependency.

Author Michael Pollan digs through decades of research and plays human guinea pig to illustrate the potential of psychedelics to alter the mind. Please note: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.

Suffering from chronic pain or illness is debilitating on its own, let alone when the treatments given are ineffective or even harmful. Patients are often given opioids to manage their symptoms, but is this the best option available? According to the American Psychiatric Association, about 2 million people in the US alone have a substance-use disorder linked to prescription opioids. What if there was a better way to treat your symptoms? Enter marijuana - what used to be taboo has now become commonplace.

Diese Meditation ist speziell darauf ausgerichtet, dir dabei zu helfen, dich von jeglichen, unerwünschten Gewohnheiten zu befreien. Du lernst dabei, wie du dir deines unbewussten Geisteszustands bewusst werden kannst - und dann bewusst andere Entscheidungen treffen kannst, die dich in ein neues Leben führen.

Read before use: There were plenty of snags, trips, and falls during my recovery from addiction. Some were necessary, many were not. I was misdirected plenty - by industry, and myself - and seemed ever-lost in a maze of unsatisfactory dead ends. While I respect and appreciate the learning process of my struggle, it sure would have been nice to know a few things that could have made the transition from fading out of existence to living clean much less painful and confusing.

If you could change your life today, what would you do...? Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds gives you the inspiration you need each day to be the best you can be and live the life you've always desired. Let me be the coach who will lift your spirits, challenge you to go the extra mile, and fulfill your life's wishes every day.

Do you constantly experience pain? Are you tired of popping pills and hearing about surgeries? Would you like to integrate alternative pain relief methods without developing dependency? How about adopting holistic healing methods without overspending or experiencing any side effects?

This is not only an astounding look into the euphoric psychosis of mania and the despondent distorted thinking of depression, but insight into the broken treatment system for mental illness in the United States and the taboo that prevents education that could save lives from being spread.

Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction.

Discover the easiest way to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle with hypnosis for women weight loss! Here's a must-have self-hypnosis guide for rapid weight loss through guided meditation, self-hypnosis, and powerful mini habits! This life-changing gastric band hypnosis guide states how hypnosis and other methods can be used as a psychological treatment for rapid women's weight loss and a healthier food approach!

What if your addiction isn’t a punishment or a curse? What if your addiction is a precious opportunity, granted to a select few, to achieve the kind of life that most people only dream of? In The Gift of Addiction, 30-year recovery veteran Steven C. presents a case for this novel perspective.

This audiobook is filled with weight loss affirmations designed specifically to help you burn fat, overcome food addiction, and live a healthier lifestyle. The powerful guided meditations dig deep into your subconscious mind, bringing out a power within yourself that you never knew existed. Let’s be honest: Most exercises and diets never seem to work how you envisioned them. The affirmations provided here don’t focus on the latest diet or exercise tricks.

While the War on Drugs may have sounded like a good idea at one time, the consequences have been catastrophic. From physicians persecuted for providing health care to their patients to parents grieving the loss of their children to overdose or prison - we've all become victims of this war. Our health, our families, our assets, our safety and our freedom are at risk: One in three adults in the U.S. now has a criminal record. In War on Us, Colleen Cowles raises the alarm and offers practical, proven reforms.

Learn the essentials about the three "happy" hormones - oxytocin, endorphin, and dopamine - and estrogen. Oxytocin is a powerful hormone. It isn’t called the “love drug” for nothing. Endorphin is more of a catch-all as it implies a pharmacological activity as opposed to a specific chemical formulation. Dopamine is a hormone that is also big on making you feel good. Estrogen is basically a girl form of testosterone. It’s responsible for the development and maintenance of her female parts.

Hack Your Phone Addiction is a book that helps you regain control of your life by acknowledging your technology habits and learning how to be the master over them. Hack Your Phone Addiction will walk you through why more and more people are becoming addicted to their phones, and what is the proper use and application of technology to build a happy, healthy, and balanced life. Hack Your Phone Addiction will convince you of all the reasons why you should be more mindful of how you spend your time on your phone, but it won't leave you hanging.

This manuscript is about educating parents and youth on the safe and proper use of medications to avoid the potential dangers of prescription and substance drug abuse and misuse. The author was inspired to write this book in an effort to help parents and teenage youth, particularly adolescents (12- to 17 year-olds) about the dangers of abusing opioid prescription drugs, substances, and alcohol.

Diese Audio-Übungen sind konzipiert, einen entspannten und gesünderen Umgang mit Alkohol- und Zigarettenkonsum zu fördern. In der hier vorliegenden Zusammenstellung der Übungen erhalten Sie neben den allgemeinen Erläuterungen und Hinweisen die Übungen jeweils bezüglich Alkohol- und Zigarettenkonsum, mit einem Abschnitt zur Reflexion des Tages (Abendritual). Ferner zum Thema Zigarettenkonsum jeweils eine längere und eine kürzere Version ohne Abendritual.

Drop any painful self-destructive behavior by learning to quietly ask yourself just one powerful, self-awakening question. Find that question at the beginning of this course and answer it with new wisdom when asked again at the end. Plus, meet the addictive nature at the heart of all self-compromising behavior, and discover how to break free.

What if I told you that achieving your weight loss goals needn't be so damn hard! Listening to this guided hypnosis audio is an excellent strategy to tap into the power of your mind to overcome bad habits that have kept you from achieving your weight loss goals. What makes hypnosis such a powerful tool is that any suggestions are directly embedded into your subconscious mind where real and lasting changes occur. Your subconscious mind will be reprogrammed to enable you to successfully lose weight.

A story about the substance abuse epidemic with call to action reflecting on possibilities for change from the health care, social, and political standpoints.