Anxiety
Can Helping Others Keep You Sober?
New research suggests that helping others—and the sense of belonging it brings—can help alcohol and drug addicts stay sober.
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Smoking Cessation App from Yale Uses Mindfulness Approach
Craving to Quit incorporates Dr. Judson Brewer's research on mindfulness training so smokers can learn how to notice the sensation of smoking and let thoughts and cravings pass.
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Can Mindfulness Help Stop Substance Abuse?
About half of substance abusers who enter treatment use again within a year. Can mindfulness help to cultivate moment-to-moment awareness?
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Mindfulness Therapy Helps Prevent Drug and Alcohol Relapse
A treatment program incorporating mindfulness meditation is better over the long term than traditional approaches to preventing relapses of alcohol and drug abuse, according to a new study.
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Mindfulness Meditation May Help Reduce Addiction Relapse (study)
Recent research suggests mindfulness meditation may be effective in preventing relapses of drug and alcohol abuse. Sarah Bowen, a researcher at the University of Washington, says of the people who seek help with an addiction each year, 40 to 60 percent relapse. A recent study divided people who had completed…
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Meditation Could Help Reduce Smoking – Study
A new, small-scale study suggests a few hours of meditation can reduce cravings and increase activity in the brain regions associated with self control.
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What U.S. health care needs: “A whole new kind of medicine”
Mindful's interview Matthew Heineman, one of the filmmakers of Escape Fire: the Fight to Rescue American Healthcare.
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Mindfulness and Cravings
In my new book The Willpower Instinct, I describe one of my favorite studies of self-control. I call it the “torture experiment.” It reveals how mindfulness can help us break free from even the most difficult habits. Sarah Bowen, a research scientist in the Addictive Behaviors Research…
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