Depression Triggers Symptoms of Addiction: Is the New Year Time for a New You?

This time of year inevitably entails a slump, as everyone emerges from their spirited holiday events and returns to the daily grind. If you are fighting an addiction, though, the end of large family gatherings can raise another issue altogether. [more]

Addictions: After The Holiday Blues

The holidays, especially the end of the year holidays (from Thanksgiving through the New Year) seem to be an especially hard time for people struggling with addictions. For most people a time of celebration, family, and renewed commitments to a [more]

'Lighter Than My Shadow': Struggle and Recovery from Anorexia

  A recent article in The Guardian by Joanna Moorhead covers the story of Katie Green, who's recent book "Lighter Than My Shadow" is set to be published this October 3rd, 2013 by Jonathan Cape. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of [more]

Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2013

Weight Stigma Awareness Week:What is Weight Stigma? BEDA’s National Weight Stigma Awareness Week raises awareness of this last socially-acceptable prejudice and one that can do fatal harm to emotional and physical health.  Weight [more]

New Book 'Almost Anorexic': Is Your Relationship with Food a Problem?

Author Jenni Schaefer, along with Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D has just realsed a new book with Harvard Health Publications called "Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem?". The Today show covered the [more]

Drug Addiction: Substance Use among 12th Grade Aged Youths by Dropout Status

This article is based on research published by SAMHSA this past February in their NSDUH Report. According to the study: Combined 2002 to 2010 data show that nearly one in seven youths aged 16 to 18 (13.2 percent), or 12th grade aged youths, had [more]

Drug Addiction in the Family: One Man's Journey

Here is one man's story of his family's struggle with addiction. We wanted to share his experience to make people aware that an addiction not only hurts the individual, but the entire family. No one can ever quite remember when the unwanted guest [more]

Taking a New Look at Old Boundaries in Eating Disorders

The Eating Disorders Review recently send out this review of ICED in Montreal. A very insightful look at how necessary it is to consider all variebles leading up to and including the treatment of a patient struggling with an eating disorder.  A [more]

Prescription Drug Addiction Still an American epidemic

This article by Jackie Glass of the Chicago Tribune shows the epidemic of prescription drug abuse is in full force.  Prescription drug abuse an American epidemic Exerpt... Women, we have a problem. According to a recent study by the Centers for [more]

Drug Addiction: The Soaring Cost of the Opioid Economy

Authors Barry Meier and Bill Marsh A very insightful article about the growth of opioid use (legal and illegal) over the past 10 years and the related costs associated was published by the New York Times last week.   "Profiting from Pain" [more]

Eating Disorders Plague Teenage Boys, Too

The following story recently ran in the L.A. Times covering the growing number of males struggling with anorexia and the added challenges they face in seeking treatment.  Excerpt... A survey shows that L.A. male high school students are about [more]

Eating Disorders and Suicide - Mother Working to Save Others

Fox 4 in Kansas City, MO resently ran a story about a mother coping with the lose of her daughter following a long battle with anorexia and bulimia. The story is all to familiar for those of us involved in eating disorders and mental health. The [more]