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From meditation to molecular science, addiction treatment is being reinvented. See how new breakthroughs are giving hope for recovery.

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It was a place Angela had been before. The single mother with a long history of methamphetamine addiction was with her parole officer, waiting to hear the results of her latest drug test. It wasn’t ...

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I also have expertise in treating substance use disorders/ addiction , process addictions, and compulsive behaviors of all sorts. I often think of my role as one who guides clients through their ...