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May 23, 20160Comments

Vitamin D – Super Nutrient: Are You Getting Enough?

About a whopping 1 billion people in the world reportedly suffer from Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D receptors in the brain indicate its relation to depression, and...

by Dr Jean LaCour

May 5, 20160Comments

Eat Your Way to a Sharper Mind: 10 Foods That Increase Brainpower

While following our many controlled diet plans, we forget one important thing – we are also starving our brains. Just like the rest of the body, the brain needs nutrients to...

by Dr Jean LaCour

May 4, 20160Comments

Is Curbing Alcohol Consumption a Pointless Exercise?

When you’ve been addicted to alcohol for a long time, it gets near impossible to stop abusing it. The brain gets used to certain patterns of abuse and rejects any attempt to...

by Dr Jean LaCour

April 27, 20160Comments

Doctor-Patient Rapport: How Lenient Should It Be?

What happens when a doctor realizes that their patient is recovering for the wrong reasons? What happens when a doctor cannot identify symptoms of a patient’s relapse? Where...

by Dr Jean LaCour

April 8, 20160Comments

How to and How not to Counsel Young People

A lot of people today are dealing with substance abuse. Drug and alcohol addiction is rising at an alarming rate. When dealing with a loved one’s drug addiction, people often...

by Dr Jean LaCour

March 31, 20160Comments

Self-Development Through Journaling

Journaling is a fantastic way to supercharge your self-development efforts. When your thoughts are still in your mind, they can be challenging to analyze objectively. ...

by Dr Jean LaCour

March 21, 20160Comments

Opioid Epidemic/Shortage of Addiction Counselors

Clearly we are in the midst of a drug epidemic. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National drug overdose deaths are on the rise, and in particular with those...

by Dr Jean LaCour

March 16, 20160Comments

Substance Abuse: Some Reflections

Oftentimes, we act as our own enablers. The idea that being addicted to something is not that bad if you’re not doing something destructive could easily be one of the biggest...

by Dr Jean LaCour

March 15, 20160Comments

Is Addiction a Symptom of Something More Fundamental?

We often treat addiction as a separate affliction – a self-contained condition with symptoms of its own. However in doing so, we might be ignoring the underlying causes of...

by Dr Jean LaCour

March 14, 20160Comments

Understanding Common Reasons for Substance Abuse

It can be hard to remain understanding and supportive when your loved one keeps relapsing into substance abuse over and over. But you should keep in mind that it is most...

by Dr Jean LaCour

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