Dr. Robert Weathers on Recovery from Addiction: Active Listening (Part I) – Integrates the psychological theory of Robert Stolorow and others, who focus on the importance of empathic communication, with the value seen in self-help su…

 

Wellness Calendar 3-22-13

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Jewish Recovery Fellowship: 6 p.m. every Monday except March 25, Chabad of Scottsdale, 10215 N. Scottsdale Road. Jewish women and men support each other in the pursuit of recovery from addiction and related problems. Rabbi Mendy Lipskier …
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Government decision to promote abstinence for drug users 'is about saving …

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Despite overwhelming evidence that substitution therapy reduces harm, in 2010 the new UK government announced that substance misuse services should follow a recovery model, writes Jason Luty, a locum consultant in substance misuse. Basically, this …
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Sober seders spreading

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Lipsker's guests all were recovering alcoholics and drug addicts and their families, and his seder was devoid of wine. Lipsker is not the only rabbi organizing sober seders — a dry version of the standard Passover evening ritual. In the late 1990s …
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