Garth Kroeker

Marc Lewis explores the neurobiology of addiction in this short book, with proposed approaches to better understanding and helping people wh...

The Urge: Our History of Addiction , by Carl Erik Fisher  is a good book about the history of addiction, weaved together with a story of the...

  Indistractable , by Nir Eyal, is an instruction manual, teaching us how to make healthy choices with our attention and activities, in the ...

Here's another update of this post, to account for studies between 2009 and 2015. Marijuana use is quite common in the university popu...

There are various research articles done in the past which describe rates of change in psychotherapy patients, some studies for example desc...

In Canada, a "drink" or a "standard drink", as a unit of alcohol consumption, refers to a drink containing 13.6 grams of...

Here's a link to an interesting article from Biological Psychiatry this month: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20965498 It is bas...

I'll introduce this post with my opinion on this issue: Almost any human activity can be addictive, in a harmful way. That is, the acti...

It can be hard to make it through the next hour, if you are feeling desperately unhappy, agitated, empty, worthless, or isolated, especially...

Nightmares are a common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Various psychotherapeutic approaches can help people to deal with ...

"Ecstasy" is a common recreational drug. Chemically, it is known as MDMA, or 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. It is a type of ch...

It is difficult to quit smoking. Here is my summary of the evidence about things that help: The single most effective treatment to help smok...

The term "alcoholic" has been used frequently in contemporary culture. Often the label itself may carry a certain "shock val...

I always ask patients about drug and alcohol use. Often times, someone will tell me that they drink alcohol or smoke marijuana "sociall...