What is integrative medicine? The short answer is that it’s the future of medicine. The long answer is that integrative medicine (IM) is a diverse web of healing practices and treatments that complement traditional forms of therapy. It integrates medical,…
Any gardener worth their trowel will tell you that gardening is their preferred form of meditation. But horticultural therapy, or the practice of healing through interaction with plants, is nearly as old as the United States. Dr. Benjamin Rush was…
Holistic therapy is what it sounds like: an approach that treats symptoms in relation to the whole-person wellness of a patient. Once pushed to the margins in the addiction treatment community, holisitc therapy for addiction has–due to its evidenced-based positive…
An Intro to MET: Motivational Enhancement Therapy Motivational enhancement therapy, or MET, is a simple-seeming yet deeply effective treatment for those in recovery. MET’s unique beauty results from its people-forward methodology that increases the patient’s motivation towards change. It avoids…
Ketamine Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Ketamine is the new kid at pharmacology school. Ketamine was originally developed as a veterinary tranquilizer or a “dissociative anesthetic.” Though it gained its notoriety as a drug of abuse during the rave years…
Marijuana and Mental Illness Marijuana is not the innocuous herb it was once regarded as. Marijuana today is up to 70% more potent than it was in the 1970s. The potency, coupled with the powerful (and discrete) new forms of…
The Rise In Youth Mental Health Diagnoses The kids aren’t alright. Children today are growing up in a world that would look intense and strange to the children of older generations. Today’s youth faces a grown-up world with deeply adult…
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Stellate Ganglion Block Post-traumatic stress disorder is an era-defining affliction. A majority of 21st-century combat veterans and countless victims of abuse find themselves in the terrifying grip of this disease. Though historically misunderstood, PTSD’s underlying…
What is NAD+ therapy? Ask the internet: it will tell you that NAD+ is a wonder drug. That rightfully conjures skepticism . NAD+ therapy can allegedly be used for everything: anti-aging, anti-depressing, detoxifying. It sounds magical, or too good to…
CRC Institute Announces Fall 2020 Opening Date in Lincoln Park CRC Institute combines Medical, Clinical, Holistic, and extended care services to provide unprecedented continuum of care while also providing important medical testing and safety measures to ensure clients stay safe. March 15, 2020 Chicago, Il: As we…