Women Who Reduce Drinking Before Treatment Have Better Outcomes Addiction Recovery, Addiction TreatmentBy Lucida TreatmentDecember 27, 2014Women who reduce their alcohol intake before entering treatment have a better chance at successful treatment, a new study finds.
Holidays Put Women Under the Most Stress Mental HealthBy Lucida TreatmentDecember 19, 2014In the years during which women rarely worked outside of the home, they did most if not all of the housework, cooking and childcare. These days, although both men and women typically work full-time jobs outside the home, women still do the majority of housekeeping, meal preparation and looking after the children.
Is Depression Addictive? NewsBy Lucida TreatmentDecember 16, 2014The co-occurrence of depression and addiction is not unusual. Many people experience both illnesses at the same time because they feed on each other. If you are prone to depression, for instance, you might feel compelled to drink or get high in an attempt to feel better or to hide from your depressive moods. If…
Estrogen and the Hormonal Link to Addiction NewsBy Lucida TreatmentDecember 9, 2014Men and women react differently to drugs due to physiological differences. An important factor affecting drug abuse and addiction is the hormone estrogen. Research into the biological and physiological factors affecting addiction has been limited, but is growing. Most recently, a study led by an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota found an important…
Managing Emptiness With the Illusion of Control: Women and Addiction Mental HealthBy Lucida TreatmentDecember 4, 2014Grace had been raised by a family with tightly held traditional values—her father was the lord of the house; she and her mother were to be subservient to her father and to make him proud by being demure women who represented their class and their breeding with utmost perfection. She sought her father’s approval above…
Maternal Mental Illness More Than Just Depression Mental HealthBy Lucida TreatmentNovember 28, 2014Postpartum depression has been a recognized condition for years. In fact, the Greek physician Hippocrates recognized the symptoms as early as the 5th century B.C. However, many of the long-accepted truths about this illness are being questioned by new research. In addition, the latest studies are revealing that maternal mental illness can take forms other…
5 Ways to Manage Your Holiday Expectations Mental HealthBy Lucida TreatmentNovember 25, 2014The holidays are tough on everyone, but they can be especially hard on someone dealing with depression or anxiety or substance abuse. An online poll taken by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America found that three-quarters of poll respondents reported feeling either “very anxious and/or depressed” or “just a little bit more anxious and/or…
Addiction Recovery in the Latino Community Addiction TreatmentBy Lucida TreatmentNovember 22, 2014By Jeanene Swanson Not all Hispanic-Americans are the same when it comes to drinking, says a study published in a recent issue of the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism. The study, led by Carlos F. Ríos-Bedoya, ScD, MPH, found that the risk of alcohol use disorders among Hispanics is different across different ethnicities — Mexican, Puerto…
Processed Food Fuels Binge Eating Eating DisorderBy Lucida TreatmentNovember 20, 2014White bread, donuts and pastries, potato chips, cookies and snack crackers. What do these all have in common? They could be fueling your food addiction. Processed foods are high in refined carbohydrates, fats, sugar and salt and are designed not just to taste good, but to feel good in your mouth. Processed food companies want…
Diabetes and Eating Disorders Eating DisorderBy Lucida TreatmentNovember 7, 2014In the last 15 years, a new eating disorder phenomenon has gradually earned more and more attention. The condition is formally known as ED-DMT1, for eating disorder and diabetes mellitus Type 1. The condition is also frequently referred to by the more informal name diabulimia. As both names suggest, this condition refers to the diagnosis…
