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The Golden Rule of Habit Change

Big Think has assembled a montage of three brilliant thinkers on habit substitution.

Attentional Bias Modification

Attentional bias makes people overly sensitive to certain stimuli. Attentional bias modification attempts to fix that.

Going the Last Mile in Addiction Treatment

Two addiction treatment specialists, one in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the other in Boulder, Colorado, go the last mile between the patient and the program.

The Free Market Approach to Addiction Recovery, Part 2

The second post in a series looks at places that are using opioid settlement funds to grow an addiction recovery economy.

The Free Market Approach to Addiction Treatment

Building the case for a free market approach toward addiction treatment by investing in affordable housing.

Serendipity of the Day

A book discusses some studies that show that most of the heavy users who live long enough do “age out” of addiction, and apparently, treatment has very little to do with it.