Cocaine is extracted from coca leaves, and was used initially as a painkiller. In fact, in the late 1880s it was dentistry’s first...

Initially my drug of choice was alcohol, and I drank alcoholically from the start at age 18. After 12 years of constant trouble,...

A 64-year-old woman came to see me with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and out-of-control diabetes and kidney disease. She complained...

Americans suffering from food-addiction compose over 50 percent of the adult population. That percentage is even higher among recovering...

An epidemic of death by overdose of synthetic prescription painkillers and street heroin has stricken America over the past few years....

CARA Model of Brain Repair at the Sacramento Drug Court by Carolyn Reuben, L.Ac. January, 2007 Townsend Letter (a medical journal for...

Medical Director, Circle Program at Colorado Mental Health Institute, Pueblo, CO 90-day inpatient treatment program funded by state of...

Family members of addicts are often referred to as co-dependents, or co-addicts. They have gotten a bad rap in the addiction treatment...

Elizabeth (Libby) Stuyt, MD is President of NADA (National Acupuncture Detoxification Association) and Medical Director, Circle Program,...

Tobacco plant leaves are dried, cured, fermented, and jazzed up with flavors and sugars then smoked, chewed, or sniffed. The pleasure...