In the field of addiction, there is sometimes little attention paid to the impact of racial trauma. As a psychotherapist specializing in cultural issues and addictions, I’ve found this neglect often ...

People with addiction are addicted to changing the way that they feel. Both drugs of abuse and addictive behaviors reliably and predictably change the way a person feels by stimulating the reward ...

The fourth step in Alcoholics Anonymous requires participants to take a “moral inventory” of the problems their substance use has caused in their lives before asking God to remove their “defects of ...

The study draws on terror management theory, a psychological framework focused on how people respond when confronted with mortality and existential threat. The researchers suggest that smoking or ...

When my son was born, I made a promise to myself and to him: the cycle of trauma and addiction stops now. I was 12 years sober at the time. The path that got me there had been filled with abuse, shame ...

U.S. Marine Cpl. Dakota Meyer, who once rescued three dozen people during a battle in the war-torn mountains of Afghanistan, was still in his 20s when the trauma came for him. Alcoholism, flashbacks, ...

Ron is an Israeli author whose debut novel earned two National Jewish Book Awards and is currently being adapted into a feature film. The novel offers a profound examination of PTSD’s mechanisms – how ...

In September 1983, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell ill on a flight to Rapid City, South Dakota. The pilot radioed ahead for medics. By dint of his famous name, Kennedy, then 29 and fresh out of law school, ...

On Memorial Day I’d like to remember my brother, an Iraq War vet, by asking us to support one another more fully.