Latest News

It happens in every person's recovery if they stick around long enough: the recovery doldrums.

Our daily lives often have us braving addiction emergencies, but how do we get through them? What can we do to ensure our best chances of staying clean and sober day in and day out? These are some very good starting points.

Canada recently experienced the world's first medical marijuana recall last month.

Despite being a man, one of my favorite sections of the Big Book is Chapter 8: To Wives. I have never understood why this section is not mentioned more in standard meeting formats, especially in meetings with lots of Old Timers who have had time to mend the broken relationships they have had, or the new ones they have started.

Maybe it is a cultural phenomenon, maybe it is our disease at work, but scientists have been searching for an alcoholism medication that works for as long as alcoholism has existed.

news_heading">Some changes are obviously good ones: our health improves, our closest relationships stabilize, new ones form, and maybe we find steady employment. Others are not so good.

Perhaps we are not looking at it from the right perspective, though. Although it is undoubtedly an uphill battle, addicts and alcoholics have never before been more likely to recover from drug and alcohol addiction than they are today.

With kids of all ages spending more time hunched over electronic devices and moving less, it is little surprise that back pain, headaches and migraines are increasingly common in children. This month, Apex Clinic founder and spinal and headache physiotherapy specialist, Rebecca Nelson, offers useful tips on how to look after your child’s spine to help them avoid pain or headaches in the future.

Ask addicts whether mental and physical addiction are the same, and many times their answer coincides with their drug of choice. New evidence, however, suggests there is no difference between the two. But how can that be? Much of the confusion is based on miscommunication. Addiction is addiction, but how that manifests is different. For […]

There is a lot of chatter online about legal marijuana stopping drug cartels in Mexico after years of violence. It has been one of the mainstays of the effort to get marijuana legalized, but is it really true? Not really. While legal marijuana is certainly putting pressure on the cartels, many advocates seem to forget […]