Addiction Education / Prevention

Pain is becoming visible through the use of functional Magnetic Resonance Scanning Technology promising better perspectives on how to address chronic pain ... a discussion of the Addiction Equity and Affordable Care Acts, in the context of addiction treatment options. The Feds come out with another statement of intention to pursue drug use regardless of contravening state laws .... the issues of the safety of drug use in the context of public service announcement and educational efforts. And one company has a monopoly on the life-saving drug Naloxone, used for heroin (and opioids) overdoses.

Marijuana is being implicated in increased drop-out rates for college students with short term memory and motivational issues. New vaccines for different drugs continue to come out at a rapid rate, and new experiments with controlling coke addiction by manipulating the pre-limbic cortex using a laser to switch off controlling neurons.

Early use of drugs for kids with ADHD may not be as benign as thought; other thoughts on the pill epidemic; also the shape of the brain may affect the Stop Switch works; strange addictions, and chocolate (for Valentines Day.) PODCAST.

A look back at 2012, and what 2013 might hold in drug and addiction issues, and treatment ... including the continuing stories of the new synthetics, aka bath salts, incense and potpourri -- also the continued increase in heroin use as pharmaceuticals become more costly and harder to get. And where are we in the evolution of treatment?

Discussing the implications of the new marijuana laws, and also the adoption of pharmacotherapy by the renowned Minnesota Model's founder, the Hazeldon Foundation, with guest Dr Kevin McCauley.

Dr. Kevin McCauley is the author of 10 Principles of Successful Addiction Treatment, and the DVD Pleasure Unwoven: a personal journey about addiction. At the Institute for Addiction Study he and colleague Dr Cory Reich created a sophisticated recovery-monitoring program based on a model used for impaired professionals – commercial airline pilots, physicians, nurses and attorneys. Participants in these programs have extraordinarily high success rates in getting through their first year of sobriety. He and Dr Inaba expand on these topics.