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The use of yoga to help break addiction patterns is growing. Body centered treatments such as yoga, acupuncture and massage; along with traditional therapy are on the increase and are being used in many treatment centers.

“In the past 10 or 15 years, there’s been a shift in thinking about addiction, to a maladaptive form of learning. And like learning to ride a bike, addiction is not quickly unlearned.”

“I was a single mother dragging my son from hotel to hotel, from living at the dealer’s house to living on the streets. Often I would go to casino’s and try to get us out of the cold to sleep in the stairwells while stealing the leftover food left on the room service trays so that we could eat. I was out of control; absolutely lost.”

“To explain the devastating changes in behavior of a person who is addicted, such that even the most severe threat of punishment is insufficient to keep them from taking drugs — where they are willing to give up everything they care for in order to take a drug — it is not enough to say that addiction is a chronic brain disease.”

“Some biologists think that the reason we humans like adult beverages is because our primate ancestors were partial to super ripe fruits, which are high in calories and often in ethanol. “