Feed The Recovering Brain Summit

Feed The Recovering Brain Summit 2025

Discover how feeding the brain with essential nutrients can unlock new pathways to healing and sustained recovery.  This summit brings together world-renowned experts, cutting-edge research, and actionable tools to revolutionize addiction treatment through functional nutrition. Whether you’re a therapist, counselor, healthcare provider, or recovery professional, this event will empower […]

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What to Look for In an Effective Addiction Treatment Program

Treatment has evolved in the last 40 years, since I got into the field. New knowledge and skill sets enrich program offerings and curriculums. And of course, high end programs are more able to diversify their programming than state run programs with less resources. That said, client needs more or less remain the same, across the board. This 4 part article attempts to list the elements which I consider to be optimal and even essential, across 4 domains:

Amino Acids and Sugar Craving

Amino acid therapy can be very helpful to everyone struggling to deal with sugar cravings. Sugar cravings can be persistent and often create intense discouragement in people trying unsuccessfully to fight them. However, a variety of simple amino acids, which can be bought over-the-counter at vitamin stores or on-line, often do the trick! How so?