Wayne Kramer’s Revolution Wants to Change Prisoners’ Lives
Addressing substance abuse, incarceration, and recidivism after release is not an easy challenge to conquer, but a necessary one. Music and empathy have allowed the non-profit "Jail Guitar Doors" to enhance the rehabilitative process for inmates. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 2, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Michael Friedman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Environment Law and Crime Therapy Source Type: news
Promotion Censors
Many online gaming sites use a wide variety of promotions as a way of attracting new clientele and/or as a way of generating repeat patronage. Such promotions include welcome bonuses, initial deposit bonuses, retention bonuses, re-activation of account bonuses, and VIP bonuses. But to what extent are they socially responsible?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - September 1, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Foot-In-The-Door Techniques gambling Gambling advertising Gambling bonuses Gambling marketing General bonus Online gambling Online gaming Problem gamblng Promotional hooks Proportional bonus Source Type: news
Drugs as the New Parents
Are downers replacing comfort lacking from moms and uppers replacing encouragement lacking from dads?read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 31, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Mark Goulston, M.D., F.A.P.A. Tags: Addiction drugs parenting parents Source Type: news
Forensic Psychology 101
I receive many questions about what forensic psychology covers and what potential students (or writers) need to know, so here are some basics.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 31, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Education Law and Crime Psych Careers Work expert witness forensic consulting forensic psychology legal psychology profiling Source Type: news
I'm Not a Self-Hating Jew, I'm a Tribe-Unexceptionalist Jew
Jewish hawks label my kind "Self-Hating Jews but I love myself and my tribe. I'm just not putting ourselves above all other tribes, as the hawks seem to want to do.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Law and Crime Personality Philosophy Politics Social Life Spirituality Source Type: news
FASD is not a Diagnosis
Too often we hear of a child who has been "diagnosed as FASD." Since there are no diagnostic criteria for FASD, the child is being labeled without due consideration of his clinical condition.
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Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Ira J. Chasnoff, M.D. Tags: Addiction Child Development Parenting alcohol use in pregnancy FASD vs. FASDs Source Type: news
5 Myths About Healthcare Data Privacy
When a data breach happens at a retail store, you may have to sort out your credit card purchases. When a data breach happens in healthcare, you may have to sort out your life.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Addiction Health Law and Crime Self-Help cliffside malibu data privacy data theft healthcare data healthcare privacy HIPAA HIPAA myths HIPAA privacy richard taite Source Type: news
The Harm Marijuana Causes
Marijuana is a mood-altering drug which can be habit forming.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Self-Help Therapy drug habit health marijuana medicinal Source Type: news
Drug and Alcohol Interventions: Do They Work?
For moms, dads, husbands, wives, partners, siblings or friends of someone struggling with addiction, it can feel impossible to know what steps to take to help your loved one. If you've ever wondered what an intervention is and how it works, read on to learn more.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Joel L. Young, M.D. Tags: Addiction Source Type: news
The Risks of Distracted Living
A mind that is constantly distracted is not only dangerous and unproductive. It is unhappy and lacks a sense of purpose.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Ran Zilca Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Happiness Philosophy Stress distraction focus meaning and purpose meaning of life overwhelmed Source Type: news
Marijuana: The Gateway Drug Myth
Many people mistakenly believe that marijuana use precedes rather than follows initiation of other illicit drug use. In fact, most drug use begins with alcohol and nicotine before marijuana, making nicotine and alcohol the two most common drugs of abuse.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Ethics and Morality Happiness Self-Help addiction treatment cliffside malibu effects of marijuana legalization of marijuana marijuana addiction marijuana gateway drug marijuana use Source Type: news
The 12 Steps of AA: A Translation
12 Step programs, designed to get people with addictive behaviors to stop, are not based on science. They are rather based on Protestant evangelical techniques. As such, they subtly denigrate individuality in favor of a more collectivist perspective, while still allowing for some individual expression. All credit goes to the higher power, but never any blame.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 25, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: David M. Allen, M.D. Tags: Addiction Personality Relationships Self-Help Spirituality 12 step programs Alcoholics Anonymous individualism versus collectivism Protestantism religious conversion techniques Source Type: news
Does Soda Make You Fat?
Some experts would have you believe that soda is the prime suspect in creating the obesity epidemic. Many cite the “liquid” sugar contained in such drinks. But is liquid sugar really any different than table sugar or solid sugar? A look at the body of scientific evidence shows the jury is still out.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 24, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Martina M. Cartwright, Ph.D., R.D. Tags: Addiction Diet coke colas fat fructos fructose syrup high fructose corn syrup Obesity pepsi pop soda Soda Pop soda taxes sugar sugar addtiction Source Type: news
A New Sobriety
Drinking can contribute to improved health but overdoing it is dangerous. What does that mean and what can we do about it? A hint - the answer is not abstinence.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 22, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction alcohol alcoholic binge CDC death drinking excessive moderation sober sobriety Source Type: news
Alcoholics Anonymous, Depression, and Suicide
Do 12 step programs cause depression and suicide or cure it? The jury is still out on this question.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 22, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Kenneth Anderson, MA Tags: Addiction Depression 12 steps Alcoholics Anonymous alcoholism major depressive disorder suicide Source Type: news
