Q6: Why Is EMDR an Important Protocol in Treating Addicts? – EMDR With Dr. Andrew M. Leeds Ph.D.
Q6: Why is EMDR an important protocol in treating addicts? – EMDR with Dr. Andrew M. Leeds Ph.D. – Dr. Andrew Leeds is talking about the EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Q6: Why is EMDR an important protocol in treating addicts? Well I think this is a really important question and first I want to say that it’s really a privilege to be associated with the ONE80CENTER. I worked with you Steve and with Bernie even before you founded the ONE80CENTER and I’ve consulted on some of your other cases before. It isn’t just a feeling or a clinical observation that trauma is commonly involved with substance abuse problems. The SAMHSA, The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration research shows that the vast majority of people with alcohol and other substance abuse problems have co-occurring disorders. Most commonly trauma related disorders. Trauma typically leads to symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, but it can also cause other anxiety disorders and other depressive disorders. The vast majority of people with these co-occurring disorders don not receive treatment for both their substance abuse problem and their other co-occurring conditions which is why most treatment programs have high relapse rates. If you don’t treat the co-occurring condition then the person is going to continue to have a need to medicate. If their prescription medications don’t meet their needs adequately they are going to begin to self medicate again. So, relapse rates are very high if you can’t resolve this. PTSD in particular has an episodic cycle. People …
Tories slam NDP's lack of movement on Talbot House
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FRENCHVALE — The Progressive Conservatives in Nova Scotia say the provincial government has dragged its feet on a decision about the future of a drug addiction centre in Cape Breton. Community Services critic Keith Bain says men in the community have …
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Methadone Clinic Proposed Near Charles Village School
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The Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals will hear the request to allow the use of the first floor of 2541 St. Paul Street, located next to the Margaret Brent School, to be used as a "health care clinic, mental health, substance abuse treatment and …
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Substance abuse expert: Increased marijuana use will lead to more crowded …
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Mark Thomson is the former director of a local addiction treatment program for adolescents and their families and a member of the Kent County Prevention Coalition, a local substance abuse prevention organization focused on reducing adolescent use of …
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