You are invited to join Kevin McCauley for the Premiere of his DVD “Pleasure Unwoven”. No admission fee! 1 CE available. Date: Friday, November 6, 2009 Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm Location: Lido Theater Street: 3459 Via Lido City/Town: Newport Beach, CA The most important question about addiction is: “Is it really a ‘disease’?” In this [...]

Living with chronic pain is very difficult. If a person also has a coexisting addiction or other psychological disorders it becomes even harder. Given the biopsychosocial nature of chronic pain it is imperative to utilize a multidisciplinary treatment plan.  The Addiction-Free Pain Management® (APM) System requires looking at the whole person, which means treatment plans [...]

Please join us in watching the second episode of Gone too Far with DJ AM featuring Hemet Valley Recovery Center!!!

Sept 12, 2009 Brooklyn, NY by Jeanie Griffin, Executive Editor, RECOVERY VIEW Imagine one Saturday morning emerging from a hangover only to see and/or hear 13,000  clean and sober people marching across the Brooklyn Bridge holding a sign for A&E’s Recovery Rally and chanting sobriety slogans!   Well, some poor souls were met with us doing [...]

Why do we so often feel better after attending a twelve step meeting? Why, even on days when we don’t have any huge “ahas” do we still know we are somehow better off, calmer and more balanced emotionally just because we had our “soles” in the room?  Some of that answer lies in neurobiology. Because [...]

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Members and Visitors I want to share with you, an exciting event I was able to experience on Sept 12, 2009.  Here I am at The Recovery Project in Brooklyn with Candy Finnigan as seen on A&E’s TV show Intervention.  How inspiring it was to join 13,000 people walk across the Brooklyn [...]

Once a month I set aside a day to read the latest research about addiction in the leading medical journals. For the last ten years I’ve watched this knowledge expand. What was once a trickle, then a stream, is now a flood, and the research is pouring out so fast that it is difficult to [...]