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‘Natural Recovery’ from Addiction: Implications for Treatment
‘Natural recovery’ is a term used to describe recovery from addiction without the help of professionals. It’s a term that rather implies there’s something unnatural about the professional or even AA...
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Some 7 months ago, following the start of my work as Director of Research, PROMIS agreed to conduct an experimental trial of new interventions based on proven practices that have emerged within the...
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Hope for Depressed Addicts
Not so long ago Alcoholics Anonymous was regarded with condescension by many professionals working in the addiction field. A common view was that science-based techniques, like Cognitive Behaviour...
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Helping Patients Suffering from Trauma using Eye Movement Desensitization and...
Introduction to EMDR The precise neural mechanism for how eye movements affect emotional status is unclear, but the fact is they do. It is almost as though a broad view of the horizon from left to...
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Antidepressant effectiveness rated
This week a research study was published in the medical journal “The Lancet” which aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of many different antidepressants. This wasn’t new research per say, but a huge...
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Lets be more careful with the language we use to describe addiction problems
In this last couple of years, I have seen Dr John Kelly speak a few times and I am always impressed with what he has to say. I want to share a few ideas he has brought up and to begin with, I’d like to...
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Does a longer stay help?
How long should someone stay in Rehab? I’m sure this is a million dollar question and of course depends on so many things, how many problems we have, how bad they are and so on, but still, some people...
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The ‘Lifecycle’ of Addiction and Recovery
Whether you have an addiction problem, care about someone with an addiction problem or even if you work with people who have addiction problems, I think it helps to step back for a minute and...
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People getting a ‘fit of the vapers’ over Vaping
I have been interested to see the difference in approach to vaping between America and the UK right now. Last week the British medical research journal ‘The Lancet’ published a review of the evidence...
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How much difference does the therapist make?
In 2004 Scott Miller studied the effect of therapists working in an American College and found quite a large variation between the effectiveness of different therapists. Some did considerably better...
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