Addiction & Recovery: At a Human Level – Lessons for Recovery From Meaning Therapists (5 of 5).AVI

Addiction & Recovery: At a Human Level – Lessons for Recovery from Meaning Therapists (5 of 5).AVI – Geoff Thompson, Program Director for Sunshine Coast Health Center, shares the fifth in a series of videos exploring Lessons for Recovery from Meaning Therapists. In this final installment, Geoff discusses treatment of the whole individual and the view that each person is complicated and unique, rather than treatment of an addict or the assumption that every addict is in denial or narcissistic.

spike in heroin use calls for new treatment options

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As News staff writers Maki Becker and Tom Precious reported, treatment counselors and police have seen a huge increase in heroin addiction in Buffalo and across the state as people once addicted to prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and …
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Are you an addict?

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As Clinical Director of The Dunes, an upscale holistic residential treatment center in East Hampton, N.Y. and as a Clinical Professor specializing in the treatment of addiction at Stony Brook University, I've certainly seen my share of addiction …
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