By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World A recent study has stumbled upon a surprising finding: in states with legalized medical marijuana programs, opioid painkiller deaths have...
Category - Addiction
10 Life Lessons I Learned as a Psychiatric Nurse – and Patient
By Cortland Pfeffer Contributing writer for Wake Up World Over the past 25 years, I have been immersed in the mental health and addiction system as a patient, later as staff, as a Registered...
From Homeless Heroin Addict to Malibu Mogul — How One Man Turned Around His Life with Superfoods
By Carolanne Wright Contributing writer for Wake Up World Looking at Khalil Rafati, the 46-year-old owner of the juice bar chain SunLife Organics, you would never guess his life history. Born in...
Drug Addiction: A For-Profit Epidemic
By Cortland Pfeffer & Irwin Ozborne Contributing writers for Wake Up World The drug epidemic is not an addiction problem, it is a humanity problem. “Few medical schools or residency...
Reclaiming My Power From Big Pharma: A Journey of Healing Depression, PTSD, Ambien Addiction and Beyond
By Juliet Tang Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Healing is resolving the separation between the journey of the body and the journey of the soul.” – Dr. Brit...
The Sugar Trap – And How to Escape It
By Katrin Geist Contributing writer for Wake Up World You likely heard it before: fat doesn’t make fat – sugar does. And we’ve known this for a while: a low carbohydrate...
Kratom: The Top-Notch Holistic Substance You’ve Likely Never Heard Of
1st August 2016 By Anthony Tyler Guest writer for Wake Up World Another ancient holistic remedy has continued to circulate itself through Western underground recreational drug culture, pharmacology...
Freedom From Addictions
28th June 2016 By Melissa Joy Jonsson Guest writer for Wake Up World To see the beauty and clarity of a person emerging from the confusion of addiction is to witness grace in action. All addictions...
How the War on Drugs Has Caused More Harm Than Good
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World Prescriptions for opioids have risen by 300 percent over the past 10 years — a trend that has fueled, if not created a whole new heroin...
Sugar is as Addictive as Cocaine – Here’s How You Can Kick the Habit
By Christina Lavers Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to...
Addictive Behavior Related to Low Levels of Oxytocin, the “Love/Bonding Hormone”
By Christina Lavers Contributing Writer for Wake Up World The more we understand how nature works, the more we realize just how complex, intricately balanced and ingenious its systems are. One...
How Sugar Destroys Your Liver and Brain… Plus Tips to Help You Break Free from Sugar Addiction
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Guest Writer for Wake Up World At one point in time, sugar was a delicacy, a condiment that was difficult to come by. If you were lucky, you may have added it to your...
