Boredom TV documentary featuring Sobriety can be downloaded
Boredom, the acclaimed documentary with scenes shot at Sobriety.ca is now downloadable on the internet. The film, the first on the science of Boredom, makes the case that boredom can be factor in drug addiction and high risk behaviours. Directed by resident Laughologist, Albert Nerenberg, Boredom has been called “hugely entertaining” (The Montreal Gazette) and “revolutionary” […]
Get Cutting Edge News and Information about health, addiction, recovery drugs and alcohol at Sobriety.ca’s Facebook page
Get Cutting Edge News and Information about health, addiction, recovery drugs and alcohol at Sobriety.ca’s Facebook page Sobriety.ca has a lively facebook page, filled with news and information dealing with addiction and recovery. See daily posting about the science and realities of addiction. Follow controversies around Mayor Rob Ford, Cory Monteith, and Miley Cyrus among others. […]
Can you get high without drugs? Altered States: Provocative new show inspired at Sobriety Home
if you could experience the positive sensations of drugs without doing them why would you do drugs? That’s the idea behind a provocative new live show playing at a major film festival, partially developed at Sobriety Home, a drug treatment centre in Huntingdon Quebec. Altered States by Cinematic and Hypnotic Means plays Montreal’s biggest film […]
Parenting at the “Crossroads”
So your sixteen-year-old son comes home at 3am one Sunday morning obviously intoxicated and proceeds to stumble into the bathroom where he “hugs” the bowl and is sick for three hours. You, of course, have been waiting up for him – semi panicked because he stopped responding to your texts and calls at midnight (even […]
Alcohol May Reduce Anxiety but Not Fear
You may never think about the connection between fear, anxiety, stress and alcohol but it has been scientifically proven that there is one. Co-author, Emma Childs, out of the University of Chicago, has stated that there is a connection between stress and alcohol consumption and that they tend to feed off of one another. Simply […]
Women Recover from Alcohol Abuse Faster
It has been scientifically proven that excessive drinking causes a great deal of damage to your body, especially your brain. Science has proven time and time again that abstinence is the best, but also helps your body recover from the damage that has taken place. Did you know that a woman’s brain is able to […]
The Dubious (Legal) Rise of Opioid Painkillers
The sale and use of opioid pain medication is on the rise- in the United States- in a country of 311 million, there were 335 million prescriptions written for painkillers in 2011, according to IMS Health. Opioids are highly addictive, and numerous risks are present from their use- they can severely depress respiration, and when […]
Depression and Drugs: Are SSRIs a thing of the past?
In 2008 anti-depressants were the third most commonly prescribed drug in America, however many scientists are starting to question their utility in curing the symptoms of depression, a very frequent concurrent disorder of addiction. While anti-depressants are still lauded as a tool in supporting the treatment of depression, new concepts arise, in particular the application […]
Can ADHD Drugs Boost the Rate of Addiction Recovery?
Prescribing cognitive enhancing drugs as an addiction treatment strategy may seem counter-intuitive, but leaders in recovery research are increasingly supporting its use as a valuable tool in the struggle against substance abuse. COGNITIVE ENHANCERS AND ADDICTION TREATMENT As addiction severely compromises cognitive abilities, it has been theorised that the administration of cognitive enhancers can significantly […]