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PEOPLE & ARTS A29
Wednesday 6 April 2016
Review: ‘Unbroken Brain’ takes a look at addiction
CARLA K. JOHNSON on learning. other disease, she asks,
She writes that although would medical profession-
Associated Press addiction is a disease, a als recommend submission
more nuanced analysis to a Higher Power as an es-
Nancy Reagan’s death reveals it to be a learning sential part of treatment?
disorder, more like dyslexia A chapter on programs
last month caused some than diabetes, opening employing the learning dis-
new possibilities for treat- order insight offers another
to take stock of her mantra ment, recovery and drug way. Szalavitz’s personal
policy. This learning disor- story complements her re-
“Just Say No” and why it der framework takes into search without overshad-
account genetic vulnera- owing it, including an un-
failed to prevent addiction bilities, brain development forgettable scene in which
and experience, she says, she does cocaine with
or dissuade many young and helps explain why lock- Jerry Garcia of the Grate-
ing up addicted offenders ful Dead. She writes mov-
people in the 1980s from largely fails to rehabilitate ingly about the mental and
them. emotional consequences
experimenting with dan- Addiction is a pattern of of drug withdrawal, far
learned behavior defined worse than the physical
gerous drugs. by persistence despite neg- symptoms, in her experi-
ative consequences, she ence: “ ... what tormented
In “Unbroken Brain,” sci- writes, and that is why pun- me most as I shook through
ishment — because prison, August of 1988 wasn’t the
ence writer Maia Szalavitz, after all, is just one more nausea and chills but the
negative consequence — recurring fear that I’d never
a high school student in the doesn’t work and can be have lasting comfort or joy
counterproductive. again.” Anyone who has
Reagan years, describes Szalavitz finds some value battled addiction or seen it
in the Alcoholics Anony- harm a loved one will gain
her own drug odyssey — mous self-help movement, insights from “Unbroken
but objects to its elevated Brain,” and if it influences
LSD, cocaine, heroin — status in medical and crimi- policymakers, too, every-
nal justice systems. In what one will benefit.q
and her first steps toward
successful recovery at age
23 in 1988. Since then, un-
derstanding addiction
and treatment has been
her life’s work. She’s now
regarded as a leading au-
thority, with articles in Time,
The New York Times, Psy-
chology Today and other
major publications.
Her previous book, “Help at
Any Cost,” examined pro-
grams for troubled teens. This book cover image released by St. Martin’s Press shows, “Un-
broken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Ad-
This time, she argues for a diction,” by Maia Szalavitz.
radical rethinking of addic- Associated Press
tion with a new emphasis
Oranjestad-Benjamin Petrocchi a true native Aruban started the
newest export product of Aruba, locally produced hand rolled
cigars called “Aruhiba”. These cigars are produced and cultivated
in Aruba. Petrocchi always had interest in the cigar business and
has also sold Premium Cuban cigars, and now he is growing his
own tobacco crops.
After many attempt and trips to Santo Domingo and Cuba, he
started his own production and cultivation of Aruhiba Cigars in
Aruba. The whole process took him 10 years to perfect.
Petrocchi dedication to the cigars is important for the molding
and process of making a perfect cigar which takes a long time. Their handmade cigar box is
specially designed with their “Aruhiba” logo.Petrocchi considers Aruhiba as a promotion for
Aruba trough its fine cigars .The company sells Aruhiba to the international market as well.
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with purchase of $20 and up you receive a free “Aruhiba” cigars or ask for their gift box of
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