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Welcome to
Brains on the Range
an Educational Newsletter Combining the Latest in
Science and Holistic Modalities
in Addiction Recovery
September 2010
Inside this Issue 
Sacred Sweat Lodge (Inipi) Ceremony
Alcohol Addiction and the Neural System
Meet Leslie Carol Botha C2C's Assistant Administrative and Marketing Director
On the Light Side - Whale "Thank You"
August 2010
Inside this Issue
Neuropsychology - Shift Your Brain and thus Your Mind
The Huffington Post
Medicating the Military
Army Times
Leading Addiction Reaseacher Antonello Bonjci Joins NIDA
NIH News
New Studies Strengthen Evidence the drug addiction is a disease of the brain;
substition therapy necessary
AIDS 2010 Conference
Meet C2C's Newest Therapists - Richard and Carlson
July 2010
Inside this Issue
Addiction Recovery: Why We are Addicted to Negative Behaviors 
The Huffington Post
Installing Love on the Human Computer
Anonymous
Psychiatrists Target Infants as Mental Patients
Citizen's Commission on Human Rights International
Meet C2C Intern Isabel Nunez
June 2010
Inside this Issue
4th Annual C2C Memorial Day Reunion
America’s Most Popular Narcotic Drug
Forbes.com
Meet C2C Counselor Susan Cummings
of the Northern Arapaho Lost Tribe
by Leslie Carol Botha
Amphetamines Showed Dark Side
The Gazette - Montreal
May 2010
Inside this Issue
Living the Life that the Life Within You Wants to Live
by Leslie Carol Botha
Helping Doctors Become First Responders
by Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
Meet Clinical Supervisor Mary Kaye Whittemore
4th Annual C2C Reunion
March/April 2010
Inside this Issue
Science of Addiction Focuses on Sustainable Recovery
by Judith Miller, Ph.D.
The Brain on Methamphetamine
by Judith Miller, Ph.D.
Meet C2C Counselor - Ted Ulibarri
February 2010
Inside this Issue
The Care and Feeding of the Brain
by Leslie C. Botha and Judith Miller Ph.D.
A Public Service Message from Addiction
by Del A.
Counselor Extraordinaire - Ryan Duffy
Alternatives to Antidepressants
by Leslie C. Botha and Judith Miller Ph.D.
January 2010
Inside this Issue:
Treating Addictions with Psychotropic's & SSRI's
by Judith Miller Ph.D.
Understanding that Addictions are a Treatable Brain Disease
by Judith Miller Ph.D.
New Law Expands Insurance Coverage for Mental Health & Substance Abuse Programs
Women Face Tough Challenges in Overcoming Addiction
by Leslie C. Botha
December 2009
Inside this Issue:
Holiday Greetings from Dr. Miller
Suboxone- Nothing but Another Methadone
by Leslie C. Botha with Steve D. from Maryland
Seasonal Affective Disorder & Addiction
by Leslie C. Botha
Courage to Change Offers Two End of Year Bequeathing Programs
November 2009
Inside this Issue:
Feature Article: "Why Study Drugs and Addiction"
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Faith Based Recovery
by Dr. Judith Ann Miller
Use of Amino Acid Supplements to Repair Neurotransmitter Damage
by Leslie C. Botha
Meet the Brains on the Range - C2C Counselor Ross Hilzer
October 2009
Inside this Issue:
Feature Article: "Drugs and the Brain"
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Addiction is a Brain Disease
by Dr. Judith Ann Miller
What are Neurotransmitters?
NeuroScience Inc.
C2C Recovery Client of the Month - Chris Oletski
60 Days - 60 Lifetimes and on the Road to Recovery
September 2009
Inside this Issue:
CEO and Founder Dr. Judith Ann Miller Welcomes New Administrative Staff
Peg Pandolfi -Chief Financial Officer
Leslie Botha - Marketing Director
Mary Kay Whittemore -Clinical Supervisor
Feature Article: "Addiction: Drugs Brain & Behavior"
National Institute on Drug Abuse
C2C Client of the Month Tyler Weyer writes On "How I Found the Courage to Change"
New Board Members Join Courage to Change
C2C to Exhibit at Upcoming Conferences
- Neuropsychology- Shift Your Brain and thus Your Mind
- Medicating the Military
- Leading Addiction Researcher Antonello Bonci joins NIDA to lead Intramural Research Program
- New studies strengthen evidence that drug addiction is a disease of the brain; substitution therapy necessary
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Neuropsychology- Shift Your Brain and thus Your Mind
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The Huffington Post
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
neuropsychologist, health reporter
July 16, 2010 08:00 AM
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The new neuroscience, combined with the insights of clinical psychology and contemplative practice, gives you an historically unprecedented opportunity to shift your brain -- and thus your mind -- toward greater happiness, love, and wisdom.
Have you ever seen a real brain?
I remember the first time I saw one, in a neuropsych class: the instructor put on rubber gloves to protect against the formaldehyde preservative, popped the lid off of a lab bucket, and then pulled out a brain.
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It didn't look like much, a nondescript waxy yellowish-white blob rather like a sculpted head of cauliflower. But the whole class went silent. We were looking at the real deal, ground zero for consciousness, headquarters for "me." The person it came from -- or, in a remarkable sense, the person who came from it -- was of course dead. Would my brain, too, end up in a lab bucket? That thought gave me a creepy weird feeling completely unlike the feeling of having my heart or hand in a bucket some day -- which gets right at the specialness of your brain.
That blobby organ -- just three pounds of tofu-like tissue -- is considered by scientists to be the most complex object currently known in the universe.
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Medicating the Military
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Army Times
Use of psychiatric drugs has spiked; concerns surface about suicide, other dangers
By Andrew Tilghman and Brendan McGarry
Wednesday Mar 17, 2010 12:18:59 EDT
At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.
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And many troops are taking more than one kind, mixing several pills in daily “cocktails” — for example, an antidepressant with an antipsychotic to prevent nightmares, plus an anti-epileptic to reduce headaches — despite minimal clinical research testing such combinations.
The drugs come with serious side effects: They can impair motor skills, reduce reaction times and generally make a war fighter less effective. Some double the risk for suicide, prompting doctors — and Congress — to question whether these drugs are connected to the rising rate of military suicides.
“It’s really a large-scale experiment. We are experimenting with changing people’s cognition and behavior,” said Dr. Grace Jackson, a former Navy psychiatrist.
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August 2, 2010
Antonello Bonci, M.D., one of the world's leading researchers in neuropsychopharmacology, has been appointed the Scientific Director of National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) Intramural Research Program (IRP) in Baltimore. NIDA is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Bonci is currently professor in residence in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he holds the Howard J. Weinberg Endowed Chair in Addiction Research. He is known for the elegance and multidisciplinary breadth of his studies on the long-term effects of drug exposure on the brain. Dr. Bonci and his colleagues were the first to demonstrate that drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, modify the strength of the connections between neurons. This finding cast a new light on the phenomenon of drug addiction, which could now be seen as a process of maladaptive learning. This new understanding, in turn, helped explain why drug taking can often become an automatic, compulsive behavior.
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We think Dr. Bonci will bring tremendous strength to our already robust intramural research portfolio. His impressive background as a superb neuroscientist with strong clinical training brings NIDA an exceptional investigator committed to translational science, and will bring us closer to new and better medicines for the treatment of addiction.
NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow
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| New studies strengthen evidence that drug addiction is a disease of the brain; substitution therapy necessary |
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Two scientific lectures presented at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference in Vienna last week, demonstrated that drug use in and of itself is linked to increased rates of HIV transmission, giving support for evidence that substitution therapy programmes could help to stem the HIV epidemic.
Currently, ten million injecting drug users (IDUs) are living with the virus worldwide. While needle sharing is a strong predictor of HIV seroconversion, non-injecting drug users also experience increased rates of transmission when compared to the general population. This is a result of drugs’ impact on brain chemistry and function, as they diminish inhibitory responses and therefore lead to riskier behaviour.
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