Dec 4, 2008

Addiction | Holistic Therapies Can Help Addicts Recover

Marianne Apostolides describes in the following viewpoint how holistic therapies benefit people suffering from addiction. Apostolides, who writes for Psychology Today, claims that therapies such as massage, yoga, nutritional therapy, acupuncture, hypnosis, and homeopathy lessen the impact of withdrawal symptoms and prevent addicts from relapsing.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How does holistic philosophy overlap with the harmreduction approach to addiction, in the author’s view?

2. According to Apostolides, how does massage benefit people recovering from...