Our brains are constantly searching to see if we are safe or threatened and this subaware mechanism fine tunes the system based on the incoming information. Some predictive codes are inborn, instincts, but humans actually have very few instincts. Prejudice comes from the predictive codes in the shadows of the brain. We accumulate threat and …

Dr. Leslie Walker-Harding, chief academic officer and senior vice president at Seattle Children’s Hospital, said that 75% of young people with a substance use disorder also have a mental health condition. The findings do not reflect why teenagers might experiment with drugs for the first time; all were flagged for substance use disorder and subsequent …

The National Alliance for Recovery Residences is an organization that aims to educate on sober living homes while also providing support for those running them. One of the ways it has done so is to create what it calls a recovery residence — a single term that represents transitional living. Sober living houses, like halfway …