David Berkowitz and His Revenge Addiction

David Berkowitz is also famous as Son of Sam, this serial murderer suffered of severe schizophrenia.

The Road Less Travelled ... Three Steps to Overcoming Alcoholism and Drug Addiction ...

Do you really want to find out how to overcome Alcoholism and Drug Addiction? Keep reading to find out ...

Drunkenness-The Key to the Evil Door

Alcohol's the word! The world's getting drenched in it, resulting too much pain from it.

Effects of Alcoholism

Substance abuse or drug and alcohol addiction involves ingesting or administering harmful substances to our bodies. Given this, it can be expected that the continued use of these substances will have negative effects on our bodies. For alcoholism, the effects include short and long term effects, both of which can be life threatening. Some long-term physical effects include increased susceptibility to liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, and other life threatening diseases. On the psychological aspect, alcoholics may also develop certain mental illnesses as a result of alcoholism. However, among the two, it is the short-term effects that can affect not only the drinker but other people as well because some of these short-term effects are enough cause deadly accidents.

Prescription Drug Addiction

Prescription drug addiction is reaching alarming levels. In the United States alone, about 20 percent of the population uses prescription drugs irresponsibly. But there is even more alarming news – this statistic involves children and teenagers.

Drug Detox Rehab

People suffering from addiction need medical and therapeutic interventions. Though most of the people think they can get off the habit by themselves, drug addiction rehabilitation requires professional help.

Are You Thinking About Quitting Your Addiction? Part 3 Of 4

The first part of this series addressed the Good things about quitting an addiction. Part two of this four-part series addressed the GOOD reasons for NOT quitting an addiction (as perceived by the addict); this third part will address the BAD things about NOT quitting an addiction; and the final part will address ways for the addict to see themselves living a more authentic life through personal change.

Are You Thinking About Quitting Your Addiction? Part 2 Of 4

The first part of this series addressed the Good things about quitting an addiction. Part two of this four-part series addresses the GOOD reasons for NOT quitting an addiction (as perceived by the addict); the third part will address the BAD things about quitting an addiction; and the final part will address ways for the addict to see themselves living a more authentic life through personal change.

Opiate Addiction Treatment - The Secret Key To Lasting Success

Want to succeed - once and for all - with getting off of opiates (heroin, vicodin, hydrocodone, oxycontin, etc)? Its easier than you think with buprenorphine (suboxone, subutex) when you know the secrets from an addiction treatment insider. This article will expose the most common reason why people FAIL with buprenorphine treatment, and how YOU can be a wild success.

Addiction Treatment is Not Only for Addicts and Alcoholics

Society is full of temptations these days and so it’s hardly surprising that more and more folks are struggling with addictions of varying kinds. There’s an addiction treatment out there for everyone irrespective of their problem. These programs can do for you what you cannot do for yourself. – RECOVER

Drug Addiction: The Individual's Ability to Choose

In their unsuccessful effort to fulfill their needs, no matter what behavior they choose, all addicted individuals have a common characteristic; they all deny the reality of the world around them. Some break the law, denying the rules of society; some claim their neighbors are plotting against them, denying the improbability of such behavior. Some are afraid of crowded places, close quarters, airplanes, and even elevators, yet they freely admit the irrationality of their fears. Millions abuse alcohol to blot out the inadequacy they feel, but that need not exist if they could learn to be different; and for too many individuals choose suicide rather than face the reality that they could solve their problems by more responsible behavior. Whether it is a partial denial, or the total blotting out of all reality like the chronic-addicted individual in the state hospital, the denial of some or all reality is common to all addicted individuals. Intervention will be successful when they are able to give up denying the world and recognize that reality not only exists but that they must fulfill their needs within the framework of reality.

Alcohol Treatments

In treating alcohol dependence, different programs and different approaches have been formulated to address drinking problems. Some of these treatments include motivation enhancement therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and the12-step facilitation therapy. Each type of treatment has varied success depending on the history of alcohol dependence of the person or the patient’s personality. However, modifications of treatments, which may mean combining some aspects of these different types of treatment, can be done, and this is also applicable to how these programs of treatment are delivered. One of the aspects that have often been modified is the duration of the rehabilitation program because some programs have been modified so that people’s rehabilitation are “fast-tracked” in cases wherein there is a need for the patient to be on his feet at the soonest possible time.

Alcoholism and Marijuana Smoking

Two of the more commonly used substances by college students nowadays are marijuana and alcohol. The use of these substances is associated with positive peer approval, mood elevation and independence, but with negative effects such as negative affectivity and academic difficulties.

Alcoholism and Adultery Go Together Like Bread and Butter

Has your spouse cheated on you? Is your spouse a heavy drinker or alcoholic? I firmly believe that in most cases of a cheating spouse, adultery would not have happened were alcohol not involved. Alcoholism and adultery go together like bread and butter.

Getting Help From the Alcoholic Anonymous Group

There are many reasons and many different kinds of people that join the alcoholic anonymous groups in their area. There are some that only go to meeting because they were told to and there are many that go to all the meeting because they want to.