Advertisements, television commercials, greeting cards and comments wishing Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas (Kwanza, Hanukkah) and Happy New Year may be enough to send you over the top and diving straight for a shot of alcohol or your drug of choice just to cope.
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Genaro Sandoval always dreamt of creating a nutrition and fitness program tailored to people with addiction and mental health issues. He grew up in San Diego with a love of sports, especially soccer – the sport he was recruited to play at Alliant International University.
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Dr. Deborah Stote is a self-professed “science nerd.” Growing up, her fascination with explaining human behavior led her to UCLA, where she earned her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from the department of psychology, with an emphasis in neuropsychology.
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Corrine believes her “downward spiral” occurred initially when, at the age of 18, she began to experience the symptoms of mania. As a new college freshman, she had begun sleeping less and less—in order to spend time socializing, and as a result of cramming for tests. Her need for sleep diminished until she was sleeping
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Drug addiction and celebrity culture have had a long and tumultuous relationship. Fame comes with a strong sense of freedom, and easy access to illicit substances seems to be part of the package. The story is all too familiar—the star is catapulted into fame and the lifestyle that comes along with it, and then its
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If you have struggled with drug or alcohol addiction, going through treatment and rehabilitation can be the beginning of a whole new life. But, not necessarily. In reality the relapse rate following rehab is disturbingly high for recovering addicts and alcoholics, proving that treatment is by no means a panacea or a miracle cure for
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Emotional turmoil can wreak havoc on your best intentions in recovery. No matter how recent your experience in rehab or how long you’ve been in effective sobriety, when your emotions tie you in knots, there are bound to be some negative impacts on your life. It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, there
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Relationships and addiction make for a tumultuous mix. You may have had a husband or a boyfriend during your addiction, but your disease likely damaged that relationship beyond repair. If you were single throughout your addiction, it was probably difficult for you to form any meaningful relationships. Addiction tends to dominate your life and force
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Being a single mom is probably the toughest job on Earth. You must be everything for your children. You play all roles and offer everything your kids need. Depending on the father, you may be doing so without any support at all, financial or otherwise. If you are also facing recovery from an addiction, your
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The statistics are sobering and discouraging: about one-quarter of American women will become victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives, while one in eight will suffer from an addiction to drugs or alcohol. But these two problems should not be seen as entirely separate. In reality, the connection between substance abuse and
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