Drug and Alcohol Addiction and Rehabilitation

Everyone knows someone suffering from drug or alcohol addiction. This article explores drug and alcohol addiction and rehabilitation and how to find help for someone suffering from this disease.

Gambling Addiction 101

A lot many of us know something or the other about gambling, must have at some point or the other have indulged in it in some or the other form. A trip to Las Vegas takes us right into the heart of the matter although the start might be as simple as a game of poker with friends while waiting for the school bus.

Addiction: An Addict's Tale of Recovery

Addiction is the devil's playground. It takes control of your thoughts, your actions, and your entire life. One man alone is a battle lost right from the start. Addiction is more cunning, baffling, and powerful than any addicts' free will. The question is, do we surrender to self destruction, or do we surrender to a power greater than ourselves?

How to Keep an Addiction Recovery Journal

By Doreene Clement and Rev Stephen J. Murray During any addiction recovery process and even afterward, support is essential. A simple, easy and proven effective way, that anyone can use to support themselves, is keeping an addiction recovery journal or diary.

Addictions

I unconsciously reach for another chocolate bar to ease my craving. As I unwrap the covering my mouth waters in anticipation of the first creamy bite. Joy fills my soul as my taste buds come in contact with the first chocolate piece and my body melts with each successive bite.

5 Ways to Tell if You Have an Addiction

The term addictions is most commonly associated with drug and alcohol addiction, however the truth is that millions of people suffer from all kinds of addictions. Some of these addictions are related to some form of chemical dependency such as alcohol, controlled substances and even prescriptions drugs.

Compulsive Gambler's Guilt Affects Their Gambling Addiction Recovery

When a compulsive gambler is in recovery, feeling guilty is one of the toughest areas to resolve for some people. When a gambler finally makes the conscious decision to stop gambling, reality sets in for the first time in a long time.

Parents Educate Themselves On Teenage Gambling Addiction

Parents are taking an interest in understanding gambling addiction. Due to new local school gambling events, multiple television programs on poker, local news and casinos parents have decided to educate themselves.

Newspaper Reporters Tread Lightly on Compulsive Gambling Addiction

Websites designed to help people overcome their gambling addictions have recently been contacted by television associate producers and reporters in an effort to obtain information about individuals who have been affected by compulsive gambling addictions.

Stop Compulsive Gambling Addiction With Education

Through proper education, society can develop programs to stop compulsive gambling addiction before it gets out of control.

Addiction to Thinking

Randall sought my help because he was stuck being miserable and had no idea how to get out of his misery. In his life he had experienced moments of great joy and sense of oneness with all of life, bu...

Meth Addiction Help

Although recovering from meth addiction is challenging, it is not impossible. With determination and support the addiction can be beat.

Emotions - Thermometer or Thermostat?

This article focused understanding who should be in control of our emotions.

Anger Management

Are you easily provoked to anger? Do you explode in expletives when you feel you have been slighted? Are you ready to pick up a fight just because you feel people did not treat your right?

Control Anger by Changing Perspective

Sometimes it may seem that you're stuck in a pattern where it only takes seconds for you to go from happy and peaceful to angry and stressed because of some event, whether it's something that happens or some way that another person acts toward you. But it doesn't have to be that way. You can shift that pattern by keeping an open mind and changing your perspective - changing what you think about the problematic event.