Be Still - Mindfulness in Lockdown Recovery

Being still is difficult. Being in isolation is even more difficult - for everybody, but especially for alcoholics in recovery. Lockdown ...

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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor

Jun 8
5 min

Alcohol and Spirituality – The Human Person

Spiritual well-being has an important role to play in recovery from alcoholism. That is because spirituality, when properly understood in...

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The OAD Clinic

Jun 1
4 min

The Brain and Addiction - Part II

Reptilians Among Us Late in the morning in April 1899 Christfried was crossing the cobbled central square of Erlangen, in Bayern. His pac...

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The OAD Clinic

May 25
4 min

The Brain and Addiction - Part I

I want to vs I have to You know what you have to do, but you can’t help doing the opposite. How many times have you been there? Don’t wor...

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The OAD Clinic

Dec 6, 2019
5 min

Understanding Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders and Developing a Coherent Treatment Plan

Introduction In 2014, SAMHSA revealed that approximately 7.9 million people experienced concurrent addiction and a mental health disorder...

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The OAD Clinic

Nov 26, 2019
4 min

Connecting Anxiety, Depression and PTSD through Neural Phenotypes

Introduction Deep research into the grounds of psychopathology has extensively focused on two chief etiologic categories: genetic vulnera...

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The OAD Clinic

Nov 8, 2019
5 min

Exploring the Mechanism of Maintenance Therapy

Understanding Opioids Over the past few decades, much has been revealed about opioid dependence that has shaped our comprehension of addi...

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