May 2nd, 2018 By Sayer Ji Contributing writer for Wake Up World Millions of pounds are consumed annually, yet it may be more like a drug than a food, and just as damaging and addictive as...
Category - Addiction
More People Killed From Opioids Than Leading Diseases
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Contributing writer for Wake Up World Since 1999, the rate of drug overdose deaths has tripled in the U.S., rising to 63,600 deaths in 2016. This represents a 21...
New Paradigms in Addiction Therapy
By Anthony Tyler Guest writer for Wake Up World When it comes to addiction, chemical substances are not the main factor. A true enveloping substance addiction is gritty, and tends...
States With Medical Marijuana Laws Have Lower Rates of Opioid-Related Deaths, Study Finds
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...
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...