by Geoff Kane | Mar 4, 2014 | NCADD Articles
Ever wonder why so many of us lose our voice precisely at the moment we need to ask for help? Credit shame, the pivotal emotion that drives self-defeating behavior, together with all-or-nothing thinking, our most common cognitive distortion. “Shame,” much like...
by Geoff Kane | Dec 13, 2013 | NCADD Articles
After alcohol and marijuana, what mood altering substance is the next most popular among U.S. high school students? You might reasonably suspect prescription pain relievers or prescription stimulants. But in a 2012 survey of drug use in the past year by 9th to...
by Geoff Kane | Oct 31, 2013 | NCADD Articles
Written by Mel Pohl, MD and Dan Mager, MSW Approximately 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Nationwide, chronic pain causes more disability than cancer and heart disease combined, and costs $550 million...
by Geoff Kane | Oct 3, 2013 | NCADD Articles
Ask people engaged in addiction treatment for a single word to describe where they just came from—a word that sums up the experience of active addiction—and they quickly agree on “hell.” Many years ago someone asked the then famous and now controversial...
by Geoff Kane | Jul 31, 2013 | NCADD Articles
In the United States, an estimated 20 million people have problems with alcohol or other drugs. Many of these individuals attempt to get sober, but remain stuck using addictive substances because they try to fix things their own way—and berate themselves when nothing...
by Geoff Kane | Jun 28, 2013 | NCADD Articles
People in the United States don’t shrink from passionate expressions of opposing views. Whigs vs. Tories, Republicans vs. Democrats, and Red Sox fans vs. Yankees fans are just a few cases in point. People’s views on marijuana are no less passionate and no less...
