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Most addicts have a difficult time coping with life, so here is a new idea to think about for drug addiction treatment . . .

A new study by University of Houston Associate Professor Patrick Bordnick found that a virtual reality (VR) environment can provide the climate necessary to spark an alcohol craving so that patients can practice how to say “no” in a realistic and safe setting.

He investigated VR as a tool for assessing and treating addictions. He studied 40 alcohol-dependent people who were not receiving treatment (32 men and eight women). Wearing a VR helmet, each was guided through 18 minutes of virtual social environments that included drinking.

The participant’s drink of choice was included in each scene. Using a game pad, each rated his or her cravings and attention to the alcohol details in each room. Each then was interviewed following the experience.

“What we found was that the VR environments were real enough that their cravings were intensified. So, now we can develop coping skills, practice them in those very realistic environments until those skills are working tools for them to use in real life,” Bordnick said.

David Sheff, author of the book, Beautiful Boy, was a guest on the Oprah show this week. About half way through the program where they are discussing drug treatment programs, Oprah states that “relapse is a part of the treatment” and David Sheff concurs.

This is not true!

Relapse does not have to be a part of treatment in recovery but this is what most people believe.

When I read the book, I could see where the author had spent a lot of time and research trying to get answers to help solve his son’s drug addiction. Unfortunately he did not find the right people who had the answers.

My research shows that most drug treatment centers have a low success rate of 25% or less but it is possible to have success rates above 75% using methods that address the whole person – body, mind and spirit. This is where conventional treatment programs fail.

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Julia Ross video speaking about: Marijuana and Methamphetamine: Treatment That Works. This video is a 'must see' for anyone who wants to learn that it is possible to use nutrition and specific supplements to get off of drugs such as marijuana and meth. She even states that it is "easy" to get off of meth compared to other drugs and she tells how to do it!

Dr. Joan Mathews-Larson presentation on video: Dual Diagnosis: Mental Illness as a Nutritional Deficiency Disease.

Dr. Cardwell Nuckols video about the process of addiction recovery.

Julia Ross recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. Her topic: Substitute Addiction To Carbs, Caffeine and Nicotine: Eliminating the Top Causes of Relapse and Death in Recovery. This video is a 'must see' for anyone who wants to learn that it is possible to use nutrition and specific supplements instead of drugs to be successful in recovery.

Dr. Larson recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. Her topic: Beyond Therapy -Nutritional Medicine to Solve Addiction. This video is a 'must see' for anyone who wants to learn about effective non-drug treatments for those with addiction problems.

Orthomolecular addiction treatments improve and increasingly counteract toximolecular treatment and improve clinical outcomes. You must see this video presentation by Dr. Charles Gant.

Most people in the prison system are there because of drugs. Why do you think?

Could some of it be that the persons body chemistry was out of balance and they were self medicating to try and find an answer and that is why they started using drugs in the first place?

Research has also shown that many violent kids have had an unbalanced biochemistry. Violence often leads people to prisons.

Don’t you think that the people in charge of our prison systems would look at all possibilities to lower prison violence and recidivism. Like maybe they should test prisoners and see if they are biochemically out of balance? Or, at least they could give a very nutritious meal?

Professor Stephen Schoenthaler from California State University, Stanislaus, has some fascinating research that should enlighten all of us.

In the past 25 years, Professor Stephen Schoenthaler’s work has appeared in many prestigious scholarly journals worldwide and he has published over 40 peer reviewed articles and 150 professional presentations in addition to having multiple television specials devoted to his work. What interests many is his discovery that the use of vitamin-mineral supplements was able to reduce, on average, prison rule violations 38% in California using supplements that cost 4 cents per day, with a savings to taxpayers in a ratio of $1 invested in supplement returning $1,000 to the State within one month. This research has been repeated and confirmed by Oxford University in England and other researchers in The Netherlands.

How did Dr. Schoenthaler figure a ratio of $1 invested in supplements returns $1,000 within a month to the Department of Corrections?

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics document entitled “Prison Rule Violators,” there is an average of 1.75 violations per inmate per year, but 8% average 11 or more per year. Approximately 20% are violent without injury and 10% are violent with injury. Rule violations typically result in administrative actions that result in sanctions such as a loss of good time (that allows early prison), segregation, solitary confinement, and occasional criminal prosecution by local district attorneys.

The costs associated with rule violations include: