Like a lot of men struggling with addiction, this man was sick and tired of rehab and relapse, rehab and relapse. He wanted real recovery. So he called Healing Properties. Then, once the newly recovered addict had gone home and resumed his life, he sent us the following anonymous letter. Normally, we put such things under our Testimonials. But we’ve… Read More
Who can become addicted to drugs? The short answer is anyone. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk. There are things you can do to beat addiction too. Anyone Can Become Addicted to Drugs As we’ve said before, we at Healing Properties love America’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). And as we said before, how… Read More
The Rat Park Addiction Experiment proved there’s both an existential and environmental component to addiction. Or didn’t it? Four decades later scientists are still disagreeing about the study’s findings. So we’re here to ask, once and for all: Could Rat Park really be a thing? The Rat Park Addiction Experiment Back in the late ’70s, Canadian psychologist Bruce Alexander and… Read More
To say it’s hard to quit drugs is like saying the earth is round. True, yes. But the statement nowhere near encompasses the enormity of that truth. Then again, if drugs were easy to quit we wouldn’t have addicts. And we most certainly wouldn’t need addiction treatment centers. But it’s not just hard to quit drugs; it’s one of the… Read More
Addiction is a complex brain disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) says so. So does The Lancet. So does Harvard Health Publishing. And so does all the prevailing scientific evidence. We need not emphasize the tremendous toll this disease takes on an addict’s mental health. We probably need not emphasize the physical toll addiction takes either. Now though… Read More
