Articles about Addiction

Supervision for addiction work differs because of key differences in the nature of addiction work. The article outlines these differences and suggests areas of focus for ...

Harm Reduction offers strategies valuable to certain substance abuse contexts. However, considering the chronic and progressive nature of addiction, presenting Harm Reduc...

Understanding addicts and how to help them

What does addiction care look like, not only during lockdown but, as ongoing patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Movies that explore, engage, or offer insight into substance-related and addictive disorders and the social and psychological issues involved.

Movies that explore, engage, or offer insight into hypersexual disorder and the social and psychological issues involved.

In George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, the Devil asks Don Juan why he works so hard to understand himself. His evocative reply: “Why, to be able to choose the path of...

Lockdown big-family-staycation-together smashes personality boundaries, does it???

Activity addictions may not put us at mortal risk. Still, like any addictive relationship our dreams to escape our pain become nightmares we struggle to wake from.

For someone in recovery for an alcohol use disorder, this time of year brings some distinct challenges to the forefront. The plain fact is that our culture is in love wit...

With many kinds of addiction, people think of recovery as ongoing abstinence from the substance or behaviour.

Dealing with ambivalence and the other challenges that may prevent you from admitting admitting that you have a problem with alcohol.