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Monday, January 28th, 2008If you were undergoing kidney dialysis to save your life, would you be able to hook yourself up to the dialysis machine, set the machinery in motion, and complete the dialysis without the help of a nurse or physician? If you suffered from bipolar disorder (manic depression), would you be able to prescribe for yourself [...]
How to Identify Drug Addiction
Monday, January 28th, 2008Today, there are many things people can do to better their lives, or to make them worse. Drug addiction is something that people might begin doing in order to make their lives better – to have fun, to laugh more, to feel better about who they are. However, it is something that can quickly [...]
Why You Need to Know About Drug Addiction
Monday, January 28th, 2008In our lives, we make many choices. Often these choices lead to changes within our lives. Sometimes they are changes for good, and sometimes they are changes for the worse. Making a choice to use drugs is going to be one of these choices. Often it will begin as something to make your life [...]
Breaking the Drug Addiction Cycle and Beginning Recovery
Monday, January 28th, 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 [...]
Alcohol Addiction Treatments
Monday, January 21st, 2008The person whose personal experience was the subject of a previous blog and his wife got to talking again about the situation. Naturally, the subject of alcohol addiction treatment came up.
It’s been six weeks since the former drinker has had anything alcoholic to drink. Yeah, he’s keeping track. Seems that during this six weeks, he [...]
A personal drug rehabilitation story
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Personal experience and testimony is by far one of the most convincing ways to prove that doing something a certain way can work. When someone does lick an addiction without participating in a drug rehab program, it definitely makes for an interesting story.
Basically, it went like this. The nightly beer had turned into three or [...]
Difference between drug abuse & addiction
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Is drug addiction and drug abuse the same thing? Can one abuse drugs and not be addicted?
Well…to abuse something means to treat it or use it in a way, usually bad, that it’s not supposed to be. Addiction means to feel like something HAS to be done or had.
There are people who use drugs only [...]
Addiction Recovery
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008A search of web sources turned up this site that advocates “self-recovery”. In other words, addiction recovery can be accomplished on one’s own, with no need to seek treatment, attend sessions or meetings of any form, or to do anything but resolve in one’s mind that he or she is going to stop doing whatever [...]
My Addiction Story
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008I started out just like many others; smoking cigarettes and thinking I was cool behind the local bowling alley. Like it is for so many, cigarettes were my first gateway drug. It wasnt long past that I started stealing sips of alcohol from my parents liquor cabinet. Once i was used to getting drunk, and [...]
Various Drug Treatment Options
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Biophysical treatment is a drug rehab treatment that is currently being practiced in some areas of the country. This treatment involves the patient using a sauna in order to flush all the toxins from the body.
The theory behind this is that once a drug goes through the liver, “metabolites” remain behind, and stay in [...]
Drug Addiction vs. Dependence
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Is there a difference between drug dependence and drug addiction? Can one be present without the other?
Well, let’s see. Drug dependence may cause someone to not be able to function at peak capacity, or to experience emotional changes, just as drug addiction. However, drug dependence is different, because, usually, the drug being used is actually [...]
Addiction Recovery Methods
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Addiction recovery can take place in many ways. There are “traditional” methods; there are those methods that may be…shall we say “different”.
“Holistic” methods are suggested as one means of treatment. “Holistic” means to deal with the whole aspect of something, rather than just parts of it. In other words, deal with not only the physical [...]
Meth Addiction
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Meth addiction probably happens faster than any other drug addiction, and it doesn’t matter whether or not someone may be more inclined to become addicted than another. For this reason, someone who is already using other drugs may think that he or she, based on their past drug experiences, may mistakenly believe that “I won’t [...]
Supporting a drug addict
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Family and friends have been supporting the recovering addict in every way possible during the treatment and recovery process. One friend feels that doing a little individual research can help. One of the first things the friend wants to know is exactly what is drug addiction? So, he looks up a definition.
Drug addiction differs from [...]
Addiction Treatment
Saturday, December 8th, 2007The most important step is when an addicted person has realized that he or she needs help, and is ready for an addiction treatment program. Because everything revolves around that next “fix”, addiction tends to make one forget about things such as one’s general health. In fact, sometimes hospitalization is necessary. Often, that’s what makes [...]
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