Category Archives: Medical/Health

“toxic mix of individualism and fear”

A couple of weeks ago our Saturday morning discussion group in the hospital cafeteria talked about how the lack of care and medical treatment for pain and addiction patients seems to stem from a lack of empathy rooted in a … Continue reading

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Addictions are our human tendencies to be neurotic taken one step further into the realm of brain disease

From a draft manuscript by our friend Dr. Kimber Rotchford: Addictions are our human tendencies to be neurotic taken one step further into the realm of brain disease. So, attachment, in the Buddhist sense, is psychological and social fixation on … Continue reading

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