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Treating Co-occurring Disorders Together: It’s Time for Change

A tragic story was reported in the news earlier this month; it centered on a young man’s effort to obtain treatment for alcoholism and bulimia. After getting bounced around from clinic to clinic in Arizona and California, Brandon Jacques ultimately died of sudden cardiac arrest. He was the victim of negligent treatment and multiple flaws in the health care systems from which he sought help. These flaws involved clinical ignorance in the area of assessment and treatment of … Read More

Power, Productivity and Pills: A Dangerous Triad

Adderall is the prescription drug that just keeps on giving, regrettably continuing to give treatment centers like Timberline Knolls more profoundly addicted people to treat. Adderall is an amphetamine. It’s legitimately used to treat narcolepsy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For years, this drug was typically misused by college students to facilitate studying. Then, … Read More

The Perils of Consumer-Directed Medication Marketing

How often does it come to our attention that things are not exactly what they seem? Let’s consider the recent launching of a nationwide media campaign to shed light on binge eating disorder (BED). Using well-known and probably well paid spokespeople, such as international tennis star Monica Seles, these public service advertisements are supposedly designed … Read More

Reject Predictability

The holiday season has come and gone; it does so every year with great predictability. Thanksgiving leads to Christmas, which leads to New Years. It all goes according to plan, and by and large, it is good. Equally predictable, and far less positive, is what happens the very minute America steps into a new year. … Read More

A Message to My Readers

A little more than a year ago, I started writing my blog, Abundant Living. I love having the opportunity to weigh in on important news, comment on foolish fads that are here today and hopefully gone tomorrow, and to pass on some of my own recovery experiences. In just a handful of days, my husband … Read More

Weight Stigma Awareness Week, September 22-26, 2014

Stigma is nothing new. Throughout the centuries people have been stigmatized for everything from the color of their skin and country of origin to their age and religion. A hundred years ago, people were not stigmatized for weight; yet today, people are routinely and pervasively abused for being anything outside of our thin “ideal.” And, it starts early in life. Research reveals that even … Read More

Lost Time

In our culture, we are taught that certain things happen at certain ages – you get your driver’s license at 16, retire at 65. This idea also extends to certain decades. The 20s are geared to finishing up college, starting a career, and securing a spouse. If the spouse doesn’t materialize in the 20s, surely … Read More