Posts filed under: Addiction Recovery

Exercise and Addiction Recovery

By Andrea Demeter Scratch Consider an addict’s lifestyle; the time and energy it takes to finance, find, ingest and metabolize a fix before repeating the cycle day after day. So what happens when our addiction is no longer the focal...
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Cannabis as a Treatment for Addiction

I’m often asked how I can recommend cannabis to treat addiction when cannabis itself is considered a drug. The explanation I provide in return is simple. Cannabis works. Since 2013, medical cannabis has been available to Canadians with a diagnosed...
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Intervention Resources

There has been a lot of debate about whether interventions are a healthy, effective way to encourage addicts into recovery. From my own personal experience, I wasn’t prepared to listen to anybody. By the time I hit rock bottom, I...
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Inside An Addict’s Brain

If you’ve ever had a friend or loved one spiral into addiction, you can probably relate to the following statement: addicts are insufferable. From vitriolic rants blaming others to eliciting money/sympathy/housing through sentences that begin with “I know you don’t...
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