Family Support: Bargaining With Addiction – Relapse Indicators (6 of 6).AVI

Published February 18, 2013

Family Support: Bargaining With Addiction – Relapse Indicators (6 of 6).AVI – Cathy Patterson-Sterling, Director of Family Services for Sunshine Coast Health Center, shares the sixth and final part of her series on Relapse Indicators. She examines the purpose of substance in life. “Why do I need drugs or alcohol?”

Letter of the Day (Feb. 17): Heroin addiction

Filed under: addiction relapse

It may not be the answer people want to hear, but maintenance therapy like this works, and abstinence-based treatment does not. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but the relapse rate after abstinence-based treatment is greater than 90 percent.
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Can you become addicted to chocolate?

Filed under: addiction relapse

The influence of stress on eating provides another link between food and addictive behavior. Those who have broken free of an addiction tend to relapse when they are under stress — partly because they begin craving the comfort they experienced while …
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