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Plain-language clinical writing on addiction, mental health, and recovery, from the team behind The Rebuild Method.
LA County confirmed its first cychlorphine death. Why fentanyl test strips miss it, how naloxone still works, and what families should do now.
Read →A recruiter offers free travel and a bed in LA. How patient brokering works, the red flags, and how to check a California rehab before anyone…
Read →Craving often starts in the stress system, not in a thought. How chronic use blunts cortisol, why trauma keeps the alarm on, and where EMDR fits…
Read →Four forces converge on the first week of January: the fresh-start effect, family visibility, the deductible reset, and the work calendar reopening.
Read →Recovering in Los Angeles when the deals happen at dinners: how to audit your contacts, change the container, and use scripts that actually hold.
Read →Official finders for AA, NA, CA, SMART and Al-Anon in the Valley, how to read a meeting listing, and where to turn for public and crisis…
Read →Anticipatory anxiety, the seven o'clock ritual, and the rebound at three in the morning. Why this high-functioning pattern hides for years, and what helps.
Read →Why thiamine goes before glucose, what Wernicke's looks like, how magnesium and electrolytes fit in, and why calories are reintroduced slowly.
Read →Self-medication, impulsivity and accumulated cost: why ADHD and addiction co-occur, when ADHD can be assessed, and how stimulants are handled.
Read →Thanksgiving to New Year's is roughly forty days of parties. What lower tolerance changes, a five-part plan that works, and when it is not the season.
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