Addiction
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Monday, August 4th, 2008If you or someone you know have experienced the effects of drug addiction, I am assuming that you have seen the television show Intervention. The popular show on A.&E. chronicles the attempts of family and friends to persuade a loved one with a substance abuse problem to enter treatment. Though they may be [...]
Talking to Someone About Their Addiction
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Recognizing that someone you love is caught up in substance abuse is a very painful realization to come to. It is difficult to watch that being destroyed by an addiction, as well as experiencing how their addiction impacts the lives of others. Substance abuse is not a victimless crime. The tragedy of [...]
How to Identify Drug Addiction
Monday, February 18th, 2008Often, individuals who have a problem with drug addiction will not admit that they have a problem.
This assessment tool could serve as an eye-opener for the individual and force them to admit that they may have a problem with drugs.
Ask them to answer the following questions as honestly as possible, or leave the questionnaire in [...]
What Causes Drug Addiction and Alcoholism?
Monday, February 18th, 2008What parents should know about drug addiction
Drug and substance abuse among children, especially teens, is substantial. According to the most recent statistics available, 1.1 million of our youth age 12 to 17 meet the diagnostic criteria for dependence on drugs and approximately 1 million of our American youth are being treated for alcohol dependency. Although [...]
What Causes Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
Monday, February 18th, 2008What Causes Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
The following is an up close a personal look at what one young women experienced while entering into an addiction treatment program.
When I was seventeen I was given an ultimatum. I could ether willingly admit myself to an addiction rehabilitation program or I could go to jail. I did not [...]
How to Break the Addiction Cycle & Begin Recovery
Monday, February 18th, 2008Breaking the addiction cycle will be very difficult, and it may feel as if you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel, but with hard work, faith, hope and the support of professionals, family and loved ones, anything is possible.
Since the drug addiction consumes your life, it is hard to imagine [...]
How to Break The Drug Addiction Cycle and Begin Recovery
Monday, February 18th, 2008A cycle, simply put, means something that goes around and around and around like the wheels on a bike, a brightly painted carnival carousel and the rotational seasons of the planet. You start an activity or put something into motion and it ultimately returns to the point of origin along the journey.
Cycles can be a [...]
Who is Affected by Drug Addiction
Monday, February 18th, 2008When it comes to addiction, you might feel that you are the only one that is affected by the way you deal with drugs and the way that drugs have a handle over you.
When a person who has a drug addiction is married or in a relationship, it is important that you realize that the [...]
What is Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Monday, February 18th, 2008People become addicted to a wide variety of things – chocolate, caffeine and shopping, for instance. But when the addiction involves alcohol, alcohol addiction treatment is needed because this substance is one of the most mind-altering. If treatment is delayed, it could lead to an escalation of the addiction to the point where the addict [...]
Types of Addiction
Monday, February 18th, 2008Certain types of addictions are readily noticeable; others are not so easily identified. Addiction can affect anyone at any time or place. It can concern a specific substance, or be as vague as an obsessive disorder.
When most people think of addiction they think in terms of substance abuse, but it relates to any number of [...]
Surviving addiction treatment and recovery
Saturday, February 9th, 2008There is no addiction treatment method that will be successful for all addicts. Once an addict has found the courage to face the reality that there is a problem over which they have no control, the next step is to find a treatment option that will work for them. It will need to [...]
What is Addiction?
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Anybody can be an addict. It does not afflict any particular race or religion or sexuality. It is not determined by age or influence. It is not visible to the naked eye and it can not be detected by blood tests or x-rays. It is however a disease, that affects both [...]
Breaking the Drug Addiction Cycle and Beginning Recovery
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Drug addiction is a cruel, merciless enemy. Once it has you cornered, it often seems there is no way out. What seemed like harmless recreational drug use became a prison of pain, guilt, shame, and hopelessness. Drug addiction operates under the “Frankenstein Theory:” if you create the monster, you own it. No one deliberately makes [...]
How to Start Addiction Recovery
Monday, February 4th, 2008It was fun while it lasted. A few drinks to loosen you up, a couple of hits of cocaine, feeling comfortably numb after “chasing the dragon†by smoking a little heroin. Just having a good time. No harm done, right?
Then it started to become no fun anymore. Those two DUIs cost you a lot of [...]
How to Successfully Recover from Substance Abuse
Monday, February 4th, 2008Do you think you are alone in the world? Do you seem to have so many problems with substance abuse that you fear there is no help for you? When you are involved with substance abuse, it might seem like the end is far away. None of this is true. If you can admit that [...]
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