September is “National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month” If you drink alcohol on a regular basis? Are you consuming more today than you were three to five years ago? Were you drinking more five years ago than the five years before that? Alcoholism is a progressive disease. What this means is that for people […]

How often do you drink? Well, according to UPI, Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) examined the brains 60 people who had recovered from histories of long-term alcoholism, and 60 nonalcoholics. They found evidence that alcoholism can impact the reward system centers of the brain in women differently than […]

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Mary J. Blige’s  admission of being the victim of childhood molestation on her “Behind The Music” has triggered discussion of the connection between molestation and addiction. She survived. Many victims never come out of the downward spiral of addiction. Amy Winehouse’s Death Makes Us Think About Helping The Addicts In Our Lives Victims of rape […]