Empowering drug addicts/alcoholics and their family members with the knowledge and belief in their ability to re-wire and thereby control their brains – what they think, feel, say and do opens a new approach to long-term recovery and relapse prevention, especially in conjunction with Contractual Continuing Care Plans (CCCPs). Hearing about 21st century brain and addiction-related research, shared in simple, easy-to-understand terms, explains how/why the brains of drug addicts/alcoholics are hijacked by addiction; how/why family members’ brains are hijacked by chronic stress activation of the
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