Alcoholism Signs - Ten Warning Signs of Alcoholism You Should Know

Alcoholism signs -- are there ten warning signs of alcoholism? Yes! Understanding alcoholism signs can help you determine whether there is alcohol abuse or dependency.

Blunt Force Trauma

Has anyone ever tried to reason with a marijuana addict about the destructive nature of marijuana? Wow it can be akin to something like watching the movie “Must Love Dogs”, long and frustrating.

Shackled by Deeds in My Jail Made of Choices

I have personally spent a great deal of time working professionally with individuals who struggle with addictions, more specifically addictions to controlled substances. I have given presentations to many parent groups, school groups, government entities and addicts. I have taken occasion to pick their brain so to speak in an effort to understand how one arrives at complete slavery to a particular drug. There is in every case a string of choices, decisions that have led to other decisions, which in turn led to other decisions, each choice locking them into a pattern of conduct difficult to break.

Do You Know An Addict?

Are you or someone you know an addict? If you are truthful in answering this question the most likely reply would be, yes. Believe it or not but most people in this world has one addiction or another the problem is that some are believed to be more unhealthy than others

Effects of Alcohol Consumption

Short term and long term effects of alcohol consumption.

Addiction-United States of Addiction

A brief overview about the socially acceptable and even promoted addictive behaviors in our culture today.

Managing Your Fears As An Alternative To Abuse And Addiction

Everybody deals with stress and anxiety, however some people sometimes take it out on others through abuse or take their fears out on themselves through addiction. Both of these alternatives are wrong. There is a better way to deal with your stress and anxieties. Here is a list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their stress, anxieties, and fears.

Nature Healing Method for Alcoholism

The chronic alcoholic first of all must make a firm resolve to stop drinking. He should abstain from alcohol all at once for the habit cannot be got rid of in gradual stages.

The Basics About Alcohol

Find out all you need to know about Alcohol

Screening for Poly-Behavioral Addiction

Introducing the Behavior Risk Assessment Screen (BRAS) for evaluating patients with Multiple Addictions. By James Slobodzien, Psy.D., CSAC

Caffeine Withdrawal

If you don’t want to rely on a caffeine addiction to get you through each day, it’s possible. With commitment, you can eliminate your dependency and enjoy a healthy, non-addicted, caffeine-free lifestyle.

Drug Addiction - Information on Magic Mushrooms

Magic Mushrooms, as they are known, are naturally occurring Fungi which are usually consumed raw or dried and ground up and drank in tea or coffee, and produce hallucinogenic effects. There are many, many different types and varieties of magic mushrooms with varying strengths. Basically the mushrooms free up the imagination to internal or external influences and let it run without bounds, whether the ‘trip’ be pleasurable or a nightmarish experience is almost uncontrollable. It generally takes no longer than an hour for the trip to engage, and can last up to 6 hours. It is like a less intense alternative to the far more dangerous semi-synthetic hallucinogen LSD.

Drug Addiction - Drugs Don't Love You Anymore

When we think of drug addiction, we simply think of somebody who’s gotten accustomed to taking an addictive substance and can’t stop. But what causes this addiction, what is the force behind it. For instance, what is the thing which makes the user go back time and time again to use more and more drugs. What we want to know is, why can’t they just stop?

Treatment Options for Prescription Drug Addiction

There is help available for people addicted to prescription drugs. There are countless inpatient and outpatient programs around the world that are specifically created to help people kick their drug addictions.

Food Addiction: Is It Real?

Is Sugar Addictive? I often get this question. Researchers now know quite a bit about how sugar responds in the body. Read the highlights here.