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Substance Abuse & Treatment Newsletter

Keeping Passion in the Field of Addiction!

(Summer 2008)
By Francis Lovell

One of the challenges working in the field for many years is keeping the passion alive in our work with alcoholics and drug addicts.

Over the years when looking at all the alternative treatment modalities that have been developed Alcoholics Anonymous was getting lost in the shuffle.

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Update on Treatment

(Winter 2007)
By Jim Cusack and Francis Lovell

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) has announced in a past newsletter that a study had been done that indicates Twelve Step Programs are consistent with the science of alcoholism and addiction.

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Nicotine Addiction

(Summer 2007)

Over 35 million smokers try to quit every year, yet less reach their one-year anniversary. It is a rare person who wakes up and spontaneously throws their cigarettes out and never smokes again. Nicotine's powerful grip on smokers effects their body , mind and habits, and these aren’t changed easily...

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