Self Medicating and Your Anxiety

This article is going to talk about self medication with street drugs. Let’s first take a look at the street drugs that people commonly use, specifically pot and alcohol....

About Abstinence Based Treatment for Drug Addiction

Addiction is more than a dependency upon alcohol, drugs, or painkillers. It is a disease that causes people to become self-destructive and hurtful toward others. If addiction goes untreated, the person will be unable to control unhealthy and self-defeating behaviors despite the physical and mental risks. Those who suffer from addiction - whether to alcohol, drugs, or other obsessive behaviors like gambling - stand to damage their health, relationships with family and friends, careers and finances if nothing to done to help.

Do You Want To Go Have A Beer Or Three? Me Too

I find it perplexing how a person's thinking can become...well clouded. I quit drinking quite a while ago and it seems to me that things become clearer almost by the day.

Internet Addiction Anonymous

It is well known that there are many on-line users who are seriously addicted to the Internet. This addiction develops slowly, much in the same way as drugs or alcohol. It is easy to miss the point when one stops controlling his or her actions and addiction takes over. I know being one of those who missed the point a long time ago-

The Power to Change: What to Do When Willpower Is Not Enough

When we're in our right mind, destructive habits may not even seem appealing. Unfortunately, that mindset doesn't last all the time. Inevitably, we lapse into a more reactive state, and end up going back to the habits we've been working so hard to avoid. Here's the key to change: give your willpower a rest and work instead on identifying and managing emotionally reactive states.

Outpatient Alcohol Treatment Centers

Alcohol addiction can have its roots in a number of factors. While most people revert to alcohol to change the way they feel, others may use it to relax, to fit in, or just out of curiosity. As intake increases and a person repeatedly experiences the potent pharmacological effect, a one time try becomes an addiction, as the consumer develops tolerance and desire to take more and more of alcohol to get the same effect, and he may then get physically or psychologically addicted. Since alcohol easily permeates almost every cell of the body, large doses can damage the liver, the central nervous system, the gastrointestinal tract and even the heart.

Alcohol Rehab and Children

The children of alcoholic parents grow from infancy through their adolescent years experiencing some difficult time. In America, one in five adults has lived with an alcoholic while growing up. Their chances of becoming alcoholics are four times more than other children. It is observed by psychiatrists that alcoholism runs in families, and in children of alcoholics. Children from such families are at a much greater risk for having emotional problems than children whose parents are not alcoholics. They experience some form of neglect or abuse and a child in such a family may have a variety of problems. He may be mentally and emotionally quite weak

African-American Alcohol Abuse

Cases of alcohol abuse, are no doubt, increasing by leaps and bounds every year. This is particularly true for the African-American community, which constitutes around 12% of the total population in America. It is estimated that almost 27% of those who make use of publicly funded substance abuse treatment facilities, are members of this community.

Teenage Alcoholism

Teenage alcoholism is the excessive and progressive use of alcohol in adolescents and young adults between the age of 12 and 20. Though consumption of alcohol by people under 21 is illegal, a significant number of teenagers are facing problems of excessive drinking.

Do You Love an Alcoholic-Stop Rescuing and Enabling (Part 1)

Do you love an alcoholic? How can you live with an alcoholic and love them at the same time? Very carefully. It’s true, it is very difficult to live with an alcoholic, but people do it all the time. Alcohol controls the mind and spirit of a person, so in affect as long as the alcoholic is drinking you will not get much love in return. Being married to an alcoholic is not a reason for divorce. It is reason for helping your loved one with the disease. Alcohol addiction is called the insidious disease for a reason. It breaks up homes, kills lives, and keeps them from discovering the Creator. Can it get anymore insidious than that?

Is Smoking Really An Addiction?

As a fifteen year smoker who walked away from smoking forever, without the help of gum, patches, hypnosis, or drugs of any kind, I can't help but pose this question.

Differences in Your Drug Addiction Treatment Center

This article provides the reader with information and resources necessary to make educated choices relating to drug addictin treatment.

Dual Diagnosis, Eating Disorders and Your Drug Rehab

This article will provide you with valuable information pertaining to the ability of a drug rehab to treat dual diagnosis and eating disorders.

New Year's Eve Compulsive Gamblers Stop Their Gambling Addiction

Each years as New Years Eve approaches, compulsive gamblers search to find a solution to their gambling addiction. Their number one goal is to face their addiction and finally change their life to a less self destructive mode. Most compulsive gamblers often know how self destructive their life has become as their gambling addiction intensified. These people know they have a problem and truly want to stop their addiction.