Category: Religion And Drug Addiction

Every so often, a new trend in treatment hits the drug rehab community and sets everyone a buzz – the more controversial, the better. One of the latest has got it all: projectile vomiting, Buddhist monks and a secret tonic. And it’s all in the [...]

In the 1960s, Jean-Claude Proulx was a priest who took the drug addiction of his parishioners and the drug trade in his neighborhood very seriously. Not one to brush off this community-shattering problem, Proulx was famous – infamous, even – for his efforts in fighting [...]

A great deal of drug addiction treatment research is focused upon different ways to fight off relapse during and after drug rehab. Therapeutic treatments, talk and behavior therapy, support groups, individualized therapy, exercise, meditation, medical treatment… all these and more add up to a well [...]