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Plain-language clinical writing on addiction, mental health, and recovery, from the team behind The Rebuild Method.
Craving often starts in the stress system, not in a thought. How chronic use blunts cortisol, why trauma keeps the alarm on, and where EMDR fits…
Read →Four forces converge on the first week of January: the fresh-start effect, family visibility, the deductible reset, and the work calendar reopening.
Read →Recovering in Los Angeles when the deals happen at dinners: how to audit your contacts, change the container, and use scripts that actually hold.
Read →Official finders for AA, NA, CA, SMART and Al-Anon in the Valley, how to read a meeting listing, and where to turn for public and crisis…
Read →Anticipatory anxiety, the seven o'clock ritual, and the rebound at three in the morning. Why this high-functioning pattern hides for years, and what helps.
Read →Why thiamine goes before glucose, what Wernicke's looks like, how magnesium and electrolytes fit in, and why calories are reintroduced slowly.
Read →Self-medication, impulsivity and accumulated cost: why ADHD and addiction co-occur, when ADHD can be assessed, and how stimulants are handled.
Read →Thanksgiving to New Year's is roughly forty days of parties. What lower tolerance changes, a five-part plan that works, and when it is not the season.
Read →What ambivalence sounds like, why confrontation works half as well as the calmer alternative, four scripts that hold, and the medical exception.
Read →What supervised movement does for withdrawal, sleep, anxiety and mood in early recovery, the evidence behind it, and the safety rules for the first week.
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