Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |  Although the data was much more persuasive, this approach to drug addiction has not been pursued.
At this point, the niacin-drug addiction story takes a strange turn. Many years ago, Dr Hoffer received a copy of a note sent by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology, to some of his supporters. Mr Hubbard advised his followers to take niacin, but did not indicate why. Later, Dr Hoffer became aware of what scientologists were calling the Hubbard detoxification technique. This involved using wet or dry heat in saunas to cause heavy sweating. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Second, if you have regular food cravings for specific foods, such as for bread or ice cream, your addiction has an even stronger resemblance to drug addiction. Foods containing wheat and dairy are two of the most common addictions. Both wheat and dairy foods contain trace amounts of naturally occurring opioids. Although these opioids are not in large-enough quantities to create a high, they likely help to cement certain food addictions. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | Otherwise, they may deal with this drug addiction for the rest of their lives.
How Does Alcohol Cause Colon Toxins?
Alcohol is another one of those readily available beverages posing a serious health risk. It's estimated over 100 million people in the United
States regularly consume alcohol. As a matter of fact, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides data that ".. .more than half of Americans aged 12 or older reported being current drinkers of alcohol. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts | | The hypoascorbemia-Kwashiorkor approach to drug addiction therapy: A pilot study. Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry 1977;6:300-08.
*4 The Second Chance Program. Prison-based rehabilitation. La Mesa, CA. http://www.penalrehab.org/
15 Hoffer A, Osmond H. The Hallucinogens. New York: Academic Press. 1967.
16 Prousky JE. Vitamin B-3 for nicotine addiction. J Orthomolecular Medicine 2004;19:56-57.
CARDIOVASCULAR, CORONARY, AND CEREBROVASCULAR
DISEASES
Prevalence hroughout the developed world, at most ages, diseases of the heart and stroke compete with cancer as the major cause of death. | | According to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Canada incurs $40 billion in annual costs as a consequence of drug addiction.3 Tobacco, for example, costs Canadian taxpayers an estimated $17 billion annually, while alcohol-related expenditures are $14.6 billion and illicit-drug costs $8.2 billion. In total, 43,162 Canadians died from addiction-associated causes in 2002, with tobacco use being responsible for 37,209 of those deaths. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Once you decide to end a drug addiction, life is not going to be easy. Those who are able to afford a rehabilitation treatment, can choose a rapid anesthesia detox for about $5,900. To become truly rehabilitated, though, they will need to deal with the underlying causes of the pain that originally led them to take addictive drugs. The bottom line is this: The body's natural pain signal is a perfectly normal response to an abnormal situation—simple dehydration. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts |  Recently I discussed drug addiction with a center specializing in rehab. They told me that they use various means to affect a cure, including hypnosis, acupuncture, EMDR, massage, and exercise, as an attempt to build toward reality. The result, in effect, is to pile on one ineffective technique after another, resulting in a massive unreality. In no other branch of medicine would we consider trying a plethora of old discarded techniques on a physical symptom, hoping that one might help. There is either a science or there isn't. If we did that in physical medicine, there would be chaos. | | Dialectically, the further we regress, the more we can predict future problems, whether of anxiety, drug addiction, or sexual impotence. There exists a relationship, for example, of anoxia at birth and later suicidal tendencies. The more we explore the birth trauma, the more we understand about uncontrolled addictions. We can foretell sexual frigidity decades later. We will learn about all of this in the following chapters.
The Big Bang that began our universe some 14 billion years ago has a corollary in the internal universe. | | If I give up drinking for six months, and that is a criterion of progress in the treatment of drug addiction, am I well? It may be a first step, but it is not being well. There is a whole neurophysiologic system behind that behavior. The results of research can be altered depending on the criteria one uses. Even if the addict is off his drug for five years, is he well? It doesn't matter how long he is off if he hasn't resolved the driving forces. He is in a holding pattern, waiting for his next fall. | | By tracking changes in this activity over the course of a patient's therapy, we can determine brain areas and patterns of activity that mark drug addiction and related phenomena, such as cravings. Primal Therapy alters the biochemicals we carry in our system, as well.
For instance, the activating hormone nor-adrenaline tends toward vigilance and activation, while serotonin puts on the brakes. Nor-adrenaline-containing axons arise mainly from the locus ceruleus, which in some respects is the terror center of the brain. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
See book keywords and concepts | | Let me show you just how addictive these beverages (or legal drugs I say) really can be in your body.
A drug addiction Story
Instead of going to a drug dealer, a young child gets his drug from his parents, friends, and his school multiple times every day. He is innocent and does not even realize he has a tragic addiction to a powerful drug. This drug is not only legal; it is freely available to him almost anytime he craves it. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts | | The situation is somewhat like a drug addiction in which larger amounts of the drug are needed to feel good. Conversely, when glucose tolerance improves, a person's sweet tooth becomes more sensitive, so less sugar provides a greater sense of sweetness.
Holiday Weight Gain Sticks with You
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health recently calculated that people consume about 25 percent more calories than usual around Thanksgiving and Christmas. On average, people gain a little more than one pound of weight during the holidays. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This is not a drug detox
One note of caution here: This is not a drug addiction detox. If you're addicted to meth, or heroin, or nicotine, please seek professional help from a local detox center specializing in addictive substance recovery. What I'm talking about here is a nutritional detox designed to get all the toxic synthetic chemicals out of your liver, blood, kidneys and colon. It's a detox that literally everyone needs to go through. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  It's very similar to what you see in drug addiction," says Dr. Volkow, a psychiatrist and former director of Brookhaven's Neuroimaging Center, who is now director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
"We suspect that obese people feel compelled to eat more high-energy foods like sweets to feel satisfied to compensate for their low dopamine state," explains Dr. Wang, lead scientist on the study. "By eating more, they're trying to stimulate dopamine 'pleasure' circuits in their brains just as addicts do by taking drugs. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  Gabriel Cousens, healing the biologically altered brain is the way to eliminate those addictive pressures that send people into sex addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, violence addiction, and over-eating. He begins with a familiar program: "Detox people, get them on a live food vegetarian diet, see if there are endocrine imbalances, hypoglycemia, hyperthyroid problems. The drugs they have been on—antihypertenses, antiinflammatories, birth control pills—have altered the brain's physiology."
Dr. Cousens also assesses the pH of a person's blood. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  With addiction, especially drug addiction, dopamine floods the system with each drug use, reinforcing the memory and pushing other stimuli further into the background. Animal studies show that drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine make the dendrites in the nucleus accumbens bloom, thus increasing their synaptic connections. The changes can remain months and maybe even years after the drugs are stopped, which is why it's so easy to relapse. One way to look at addiction is that the brain has learned something too well. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  As a medicine plant, peyote is used to treat arteriosclerosis, arthritis, blindness, cancer, cough, depression, diabetes, drug addiction, dysmenorrhea, fever, flu, grief, headache (related to the nerves), hysteria, hypochondria, infertility, intestinal problems, paralysis, pleurisy, pneumonia, restlessness, rheumatism pain, staphylococcus, tuberculosis, venereal disease, and vision problems. The peyote buttons are generally eaten or made into a tea. | | Ginseng is used in the treatment of adrenal deficiency, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, anemia, appetite loss, atherosclerosis, chemotherapy side effects, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, diarrhea (chronic), drug addiction and withdrawal symptoms, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, heart palpitations, infertility (male and female), insomnia, low libido, low sperm count, malabsorption, memory loss, menopause symptoms, night sweats, organ prolapse, post-traumatic stress (physical and emotional), radiation exposure, shortness of breath, stress, stroke, and tuberculosis. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts | | Primal Therapy has established that drug addiction is made up largely of early pain (that is, a lack of love), and that pain sets in motion its countervailing forces, namely repression. When repression is in place but faulty or failing, when the serotonin-endorphin systems are inadequate to the task of managing pain, the individual suffers, and needs outside help in the form of drugs to dampen that suffering. Often the outside drugs mimic the exact biochemicals that should be produced internally. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Sugar addiction and carbohydrate addiction are epidemics of modern-day humans in America and other countries," worries drug addiction and obesity expert Forrest Tennant, M.D., Ph.D., founder of five weight-loss/carbohydrate-dependency clinics in Northern California, who, in 1991, lost weight and restored himself to health by discovering and kicking his own carb and sugar addiction.
"For years, I've tried to convince fellow members of the American Society of Addiction Medicine that sugar and carbohydrates can be addictive. |
Michael Friedman, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME (PMS)
Signs and Symptoms _________________________
þ Abdominal bloating
þ Menorrhagia
þ Anxiety
þ Moodiness
þ Brain fog
þ Headaches
þ Palpitations
þ Cravings
Medical History ________ ______________________
þ A history of alcohol intolerance, oral contraceptive intolerance, postpartum depression, toxemia of pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction is found more often in individuals with PMS.
Physical Examination
þ Physical exam including pelvic exam and pap smear. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
See book keywords and concepts |  SUMMARY
Food addiction, alcohol abuse, and drug addiction share a common communication signal gone awry - leptin resistance or leptin signals that have been destroyed. These leptin problems fuel addictive behavior by confusing the subconscious brain into believing that these substances are essential for survival.
Stress that makes a person feel unstable in some way is likely to trigger addictive behavior patterns. In part, this is because normal CART function is related to the anxiety stress response. | | This information shows that alcohol and drug addiction tendencies could be fueled by earlier life use of Ritalin. Since food cravings are involved in the same brain pathways, it is quite likely that Ritalin could make a person more susceptible to overeating.
This is partly due to the known mechanism of amphetamines suppressing leptin in the hypothalamus gland of the brain - evoking the starvation response. This means there is a much higher risk for weight gain once Ritalin is stopped. | | Excess CART activation causes too much stimulation, leading to production of anxiety that is part of the paranoia of drug addiction.75 If such an addict has an appetite, eating food will turn off the anxiety by increasing leptin. This creates a reciprocal and cross-related addictive pattern between drug ingestion, anxiety, and food consumption, one massive confused state of addictive patterns in the subconscious mind.
This issue is further complicated by the fact that CART-related drugs, including stimulant diet pills, have no restraint keeping them out of the brain. |
Jacky Law
See book keywords and concepts |  The idea of therapeutic vaccines for chronic conditions such as obesity and drug addiction is relatively new and involves predisposing the immune system to deal better with conditions that have taken hold rather than the more traditional idea of vaccines, which is to provide protection against conditions we have not yet acquired.
Again, one doesn't have to go far to find well-reasoned scepticism. Dr Bruce Dan, an expert in infectious diseases and a former editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, cautions against the very concept. |
Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The treatment was later expanded to include drug addiction and to treat Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress. This treatment protocol has been shown to be the most promising treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction to date, with an astounding 20 percent relapse rate. Prior to this neurofeedback protocol, a 20 percent relapse rate was unheard of in the treatment of addictions.6-7-8
If you have a patient with alcoholism or drug addiction, it is a good practice to look for a history of ADD. |
Henry Hobhouse
See book keywords and concepts |  This can be witnessed by those who have to pay for the more violent aspects of drug addiction, while the Coca-Cola
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Company is still using its shortened registered name, Coke, in marketing.
The coca bush resembles a western European blackthorn, growing about 6 feet high, but the bushes have reddish-brown bark and light-green leaves, which should be picked as carefully as tea leaves and are selected for their apparent alkaloid value. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
See book keywords and concepts | | This information sheds light on the true nature of drug addiction, as well as how it accelerates the onset and increases the risk for any disease of aging, especially brain damage resulting in cognitive decline.
Amphetamine-based diet pills, known to suppress appetite, have been around for a long time. The stimulative effects of cocaine are also well known. The brain actually makes small amounts of these substances, and they have a natural stimulant effect.
The cells in the brain responding to this stimulation are called CART (cocaine and amphetamine regulating transcript). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Because the war on drugs has been a huge waste of taxpayer dollars, and has not been very effective at actually eliminating illegal drug use, drug trafficking, drug addiction, and so on. The reality of the economics here means that even if we ban nicotine products, there would certainly be a black market for them, and we might, in fact, be much better off keeping them legal where they can be regulated and taxed. So that's the libertarian argument in a nutshell, and I don't claim to speak for the libertarians on this one -- this is just an overview of the more common viewpoints on the subject. |
Amarjit S. Basra
See book keywords and concepts |  Later on the development of alcoholism, drug addiction, and diabetes became common as well. The Aborigines had no natural protection for, and bush medicine had no effect on, these new infirmities.
In their traditional life, Aborigines had to cope with such respiratory ailments as coughs and colds, and such complaints as eye and intestinal disorders (dysentery, diarrhea, and constipation), headache, rheumatism, skin eruptions due to scabies or to other infectious diseases, wounds, burns, cuts, snakebites, and insect bites. |
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