The Radical Road to Recovery
The Radical Road to Recovery by Jost Sauer (published in Success Tribe) Bingeing on amphetamines is not how a drug and alcohol counselor is supposed to spend their weekends, but in the eighties this is...
View ArticleThe Cause of Addiction (or not)
The cause of addiction (or not) I just read that Huffington Post article on the latest discovery into the cause of addiction. I’d previously read about that rat experiment they mentioned in which caged...
View ArticleA holistic approach to drug recovery
THE RADICAL ROAD TO DRUG RECOVERY From my first puff on a hash-laced joint, I said ‘yes’ to drugs. I couldn’t get enough of the wild adventures, from tripping in the forest on LSD, to shooting-up speed...
View ArticleTime for a new approach to Recovery
After gaining extensive knowledge of drugs through my own addiction, work as a drug and alcohol counselor, and then as educator, author and therapist specializing in addiction, it became increasingly...
View ArticleQuit ice but keep the high
There seem to be more media stories on ice every day now. But I’ve noticed a shift away from the stereotypical demonizing of dealers and users. Even the police are now saying the solution is not to...
View ArticleIce and Peak Experiences
A lot of talk on mandatory detox after Jacqui Lambie’s comments, working in the field I totally understand her desperation, I see the pain drugs create in users and the emotional pain their actions...
View Articlechi-hab not rehab
Reading the Ice Times (aka Sunday Mail) about Tony Abbott’s new strategy of ‘dob in a dealer’. Really? Are we all in primary school? What a tragic waste of money the whole ice-task force is going to...
View ArticleNew addiction recovery
All the talk on mandatory detox after Jacqui Lambie’s comments, and on Tony Abbott’s ‘dob in a dealer’ strategy makes me realize that I’m so on track with my ‘what did you get right on drugs’ recovery...
View ArticleCrystal meth / ice and feeling superhuman
The Sunday Mail really is the Ice-Times today headlining ‘A nation cursed by the evil of ice’. It describes the drug as pernicious and diabolical. This is the same old sensationalism we always get from...
View ArticleHow to stop sugar addiction
Caught a few minutes of The Biggest Loser where a group of people were being labelled, shamed, guilt-tripped for ‘losing control’ and basically being treated in the same judgmental shabby manner as...
View ArticleLife After Partying
Just watched the Australian movie Ruben Guthrie. It wasn’t a particularly great movie but it was interesting because the main character was a hard partying high-achiever, who was using drugs and...
View ArticleDrug recovery and the Body Clock
There’s this new condition scientists have identified called ‘social jetlag’. It comes from messing with your body clock primarily by sleeping-in in the morning. This creates symptoms including lack of...
View ArticleWhy the stoner sloth campaign is a waste of money
The NSW government spent half a million on the stoner sloth campaign and just contributed to the problem because the campaign validates the kind of judgmental behavior that often makes young people...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn’t self medicate with marijuana
Medical marijuana is getting lots of media coverage lately, and with its legalization spreading globally more and more people will be using it not just for fun, but to self-medicate. I regularly treat...
View ArticleWhy addiction is not a disease
The rehab revolution is definitely gathering momentum. Just read an interview in Vice with Marc Lewis, an ex-addict and neuroscientist who has written a new book called Biology of Desire: Why Addiction...
View ArticleMarijuana and meditation
Cannabis is the fastest growing industry in the USA, but people aren’t buying dope they are buying the way it makes you feel; laid-back calm, happy and connected. In TCM this all comes from...
View ArticleDon’t use your mind to quit drugs
Mainstream recovery is based on talk. First you have to talk yourself out of taking drugs (“no drugs today, no drugs today”), and then talk endlessly through the relationship dramas, sexual...
View ArticleThe desire for intoxication is natural
In the book, Intoxication, by Roland Siegel, he claims that the pursuit of altered states through drugs is a natural part of our biology and it is as deep-rooted as our drive for food, sleep and sex....
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Magic Mushrooms
Magic mushroom is the term popularly used to describe the mushrooms that have an hallucinogenic effect when consumed. Sometimes people shorten the term to “shrooms”. According to Western research the...
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Ecstasy Drugs Interpreted Using TCM
Ecstasy (MDMA) is an unusual drug. Its chemical structure bears similarities to both the stimulant methamphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline. Ecstasy is sometimes categorised as an entactogen —...
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