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Franco Lania: Cooking for Inspiration: When Recipes Just Aren't Enough

2013-06-18T08:30:12Z

For me, the answer to many of life's negative outcomes is quite simple: cooking!

Read more: Cooking-Healthy, Mental Health, Inspirational, Inspiration, Cooking, Addiction and Recovery, Inspirational Stories, Cooking Tips, New York, Taste News

Anna David: The Tragedy of the Betty Ford-Hazelden 'Alliance'

2013-06-14T11:57:26Z

I do know that as major treatment centers start to move away from abstinence-based treatment, what I -- and many people I know and love -- received when we were desperate for help is in jeopardy.

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Mark Olmsted: You Can Handle the Truth

2013-06-12T15:48:46Z

Remember when Lucy lost that bet and had to tell the truth for a day? She told Ethel her true hair color was mousy brown, her real age was 33 and admitted she'd described Carolyn Appleby's new furniture as a nightmare you had after eating Chinese food.

Read more: Fraud, Snowden, Lying, Eavesdropping, Nsa, Prison, Alcholism, Wiretapping, Addiction, Gay, Aids, Nra, Truth, Books News

Michael Clemens: An Island Afar

2013-06-13T16:31:49Z

I am an island slowly opening up and being shown that true beauty is in vulnerability. It's loving and being loved. It's in the eyes of that little shelter dog who teaches me every day that the meaning of life is in this moment right now.

Read more: West Village Anti-Gay Hate Crime, Addiction and Recovery, West Village, Gay, New York, New York City, Dogs, Animal Shelter, Gay Experience, Adopted Dogs, Gay Life, Shelter Dogs, Gay Voices News

WATCH: Former Navy Officer Shares Experience Of Bottoming Out With Alcohol

2013-06-12T17:23:38Z

Not everyone gets a second chance. Not everybody succeeds after being given a second shot at a fruitful and happy life. We talk to Jamie McCall, a now...

Read more: HuffPost Live, Starting Your Life Over, Jamie Mccall, Navy Veteran Jamie Mccall, Live Video, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Navy, HuffPost Live 321 News

Marian Wright Edelman: Stress, Trauma, Loss, Rage

2013-06-07T17:56:12Z

What if we looked at violence in America as a public health crisis rather than a crime problem? What if we look for promising practices and expanded the ones that work to eliminate the epidemic of violence that keeps our graveyards, jails, and prisons full?

Read more: Drug Addiction, Newtown, Kenneth Hardy, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men, Robert Ross, National Gun Violence Epidemic, Drexel University School of Public Health, Violence, Department of Health Management and Policy, Devaluation, Healthy Communities Initiative, John Rich, Rage, Gun Violence, Stress, Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, Emotional Numbing, Prison, Wrong Place, Black Boys, Institute of Medicine, Public Health Crisis, The California Endowment, Hyper Vigilance, Public Safety, Politics News

Wray Herbert: The Heart and Mind of Addiction

2013-06-06T11:56:54Z

Brainwashed is not an anti-neuroscience book. Indeed, the authors celebrate the new insights into human thought and behavior that brain studies have yielded. But the book does take a hard stand against the prevailing neurocentrism.

Read more: Addiction, Recovery, Neuroscience, Psychological Science, Brain, Motivation, Alcoholism, Science News

Anthony Papa: Michael Douglas Wants to Overhaul America's Legal System

2013-06-04T15:05:49Z

In a recent interview in Britain's Event Magazine, academy award winning actor, Michael Douglas, vowed to fight for a complete overhaul of America's legal system. This comes on the heels of his son Cameron losing his appeal which affirmed his nine and a half year sentence for drug charges.

Read more: Prison Reform, Cameron Douglas, Addiction & Recovery, War on Drugs, Celebrity Kids, Michael Douglas, Criminal Justice Reform, Celebrities, Entertainment News

Stanton Peele: The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part IV: The BRAIN Initiative and the Politics of Experience

2013-06-03T18:14:57Z

Developing a better understanding of, and effective treatments for, mental-health disorders is a very ambitious task for BRAIN. Although those actually involved in BRAIN stop short of saying the we can find the sources for these things and cure them, there is hope that this is where we are headed.

Read more: Human Genome Project, Healthy Living Health News, Brain Mapping, Mental Health, Addiction Research, Brain Research, Addiction and Recovery, Brain Science, Obama Brain Mapping, Mind, Healthy Living News

Stanton Peele: The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part III: The DSM-5 War Over What Being Human Means

2013-05-28T13:43:33Z

Insel represents a crucial American school of thought -- by far the dominant one in the U.S. today -- that equates the future of mental health with the brain, pure and simple. This school of thought is fundamentally wrong, has always been wrong, will always be wrong.

Read more: Dsm 5, Mental Illness, Mental Disorders, Healthy Living Health News, Brain Mapping, Mental Health, Brain Research, Dsm-5, Mental Health Research, Addiction and Recovery, Brain Science, Obama Brain Mapping, Mind, Healthy Living News

Ilana Rapp: Actor Freddie Smith of Days of Our Lives Has a New Passion Project!

2013-05-24T13:21:01Z

What do you get when you mix passion with love, dedication and commitment? Freddie Smith!

Read more: Soap Operas, Entertainment, Humor, Addiction, TV Soaps, Shawn Christian, Freddie Smith, Jack Briggs, Netflix, Days of Our Lives, Nate Hartley, TV News

Dr. Howard Samuels: 8 Ways to Prevent Relapse

2013-05-23T18:49:12Z

s relapse going to be part of your story? Maybe. But if you open yourself up to the possibility that there might be a way to prevent relapse from becoming a part of your recovery, you may find yourself not only clean and sober, but immersed in a life worth staying clean and sober for.

Read more: Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Addiction Relapse, Addiction & Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcoholism Relapse, Self-Help, Relapse Prevention, Relapse, Emotional Health, Healthy Living News

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Are Alcoholism and Addiction in Our Blood?

2013-05-23T17:43:59Z

Probably the best information we have about the hereditability of alcoholism comes from studies of twins, and specifically those that compare identical twins with fraternal twins.

Read more: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Heredity, Alcohol Addiction, Substance Abuse, Addiction and Recovery, Healthy Living News

MotherWoman: MotherWoman Saved My Life. You Can Help Save a Mom's Life Too.

2013-05-23T10:18:14Z

MotherWoman saved my life, my identity and my motherhood. MotherWoman was my missing piece, the place where I found myself and was given permission to...

Read more: Support, Mental Health, Maternity, Working Mothers, Impact News, Motherwoman, Addiction, Motherhood, Mental Illness Stigma, Maternal Health, Mental Illness, Ppd, Raiseforwomen, Addiction & Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Moms, Working Moms, Parents-Moms, Substance Abuse, Impact News

WATCH: Tyler Perry On Whitney Houston: 'I Sensed... A Death Day Coming'

2013-05-23T10:22:43Z

Before she passed away tragically in February 2012, Whitney Houston had been a good friend of Tyler Perry. Whitney was open with him about her struggl...

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Stanton Peele: The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part II: Why Are the Human Psyche and Behavior So Complicated?

2013-05-21T15:30:45Z

The very inconclusiveness of the Human Genome Project as detailed in part one is pushing us to conclude that we were only looking in the wrong place when we put a microscope to our DNA. Instead, we have determined to look to the brain directly.

Read more: Human Genome Project, Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Healthy Living Health News, Brain Mapping, Mental Health, Mental Health Research, Dsm, Addiction and Recovery, Brain Science, Obama Brain Mapping, Mind, Healthy Living News

Stanton Peele: The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part I: The Disappointment of the Human Genome Project

2013-05-17T13:04:02Z

The ideal image many people had of the genome as a straightforward template that stamps out human beings in a predictable way was, and is, a fantasy. And this is nowhere more evident than in the case of human personality traits and mental illness.

Read more: Mental Illness, Human Genome Project, Healthy Living Health News, Brain Mapping, Mental Health, Brain Research, Brain, Addiction and Recovery, Addiction, Obama Brain Mapping, Brain Science, Obama Brain Initiative, Human Genome, Healthy Living News

Anti-Cocaine Vaccine Works By Eating Drug Like 'A Little Pac-Man'

2013-05-13T15:45:27Z

Scientists have developed a drug that effectively stops cocaine from reaching the brain, according to new research in primates.

The study, publish...

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Brazil Cracking Down On Crack

2013-05-10T09:07:37Z

SAO PAULO -- Brazil's most populous and wealthiest state expanded its attack on crack cocaine abuse on Thursday by unveiling a program that will provi...

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Christie O. Tate: Telling My Young Children About My 12-Step Recovery

2013-05-09T15:24:35Z

I knew one day my kids would ask me about the meetings I go to. I figured they would be about 10-years-old before they asked any probing questions. I was off by about six years. And I totally should have seen it coming.

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Dr. Tian Dayton: Why We 'Self-Medicate' Our Own Depression or Anxiety

2013-05-09T14:34:52Z

This is mental health awareness month. Which means, in my experience, that it is still, to some extent at least, alcohol awareness month. Many people ...

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The Scary Addiction That May Be Fueled By Divorce

2013-05-08T18:44:09Z

A video segment from local news station KARE 11 in Minneapolis, MN delves into some women's hidden addiction: compulsive gambling. And divorce -- amo...

Read more: Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Divorce, Life After Divorce, Divorce Addiction, Gambling Divorce, Video, Divorce News

Dr. Jim Taylor: What Do Young People Say About Their Relationship With Technology?

2013-05-08T17:16:35Z

Technology seems to be shifting from a tool that people use to, as the study suggests, something that is a part of who we are, an element of our identity and sense of self.

Read more: Smartphones, Addiction, Social Media, Technology, Internet, Technology News

David_Goldstein: Burn, Baby, Burn: A Climate Activist's Wish for Superstorms, Wildfires and Drought

2013-05-07T14:15:14Z

I want to let you in on a little secret. I am in it for love.

I am a climate change activist because, when all is said and done, nothing is more pr...

Read more: Addiction, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Arctic Ice Melt, Green News

Tom Alderman: E-Butts: The Marlboro Man Plugs in.

2013-05-07T13:55:01Z

You may have seen the recent flurry of stories about a supposed alternative to cigarette addiction called the electronic cigarette. E-butts are a mov...

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