April 20th, 2015
What is the Process for Entering Drug Treatment?
Entering into drug treatment is an enormous step in the process of recovering your life and health. The first part of the process is to make the decision and to contact one of the treatment centers. From there, the process can be explained simply. The more you understand how the treatment ...
March 23rd, 2015
Making a Change to Overcome Drug Addiction
For some individuals battling with addiction, the greatest and hardest venture to recuperating from addiction is the first: choosing to start their journey toward healing. It’s typical to struggle with the drug you’re addicted to, even when you understand that it’s bringing on issues ...
March 9th, 2015
What is The Difference Between Substance Abuse and Addiction?
The distinction between substance abuse and addiction is extremely slight. Substance abuse means utilizing an illicit substance or utilizing a legitimate substance in the wrong way. Addiction starts as abuse, or utilizing a substance like pot or cocaine, and then it can turn into something more ...
March 2nd, 2015
Many Paths To Defeating Addiction
Many people assume that the only way to get through an addiction is to go to meetings for the rest of your life. The issue is, that doesn’t work for everyone, and some people need more extensive help in order to be able to overcome their addiction in a healthy way to get through an […]
February 25th, 2015
The Blame Game Doesn’t Fix Addiction
Many people assume that, because using drugs is a conscious choice, that it is the person’s fault that they are trapped in the addiction. Yes, even though they have played a role in the whole thing, that doesn’t mean that blaming them for the problem, is going to make it any better. Instead, we ...
February 16th, 2015
The Brief and Poorly Known History of Some of the Most Commonly Used Drugs
Drugs and drug abuse are issues of our contemporary society everyone has heard about at least once in their lifetime. However, what may surprise you is that most of the drugs that are commonly used out there began as actual medicine. Later on, when specialists discovered their highly addictive ...
February 9th, 2015
What Addiction Actually Is and How It Works
We often hear the word “addiction” in so many contexts that we have gotten too used to it to actually understand it. Addiction comes in many shapes (from alcohol or drug addiction to addiction to Facebook and gambling) and it can be extremely destructive both for those who suffer from it and ...
February 2nd, 2015
Types of Drug Rehabilitation Treatments
Drug addiction drug addiction can be treated and it is more serious than many of the people out there actually want to admit it. This is not an issue pertaining to movies, books and TV shows, but an issue that is closer to us all than we may even be able to imagine it. Drug addiction […]
January 26th, 2015
The Effects of Smoking Marijuana
Marijuana has long been debated in between the two worlds of the so-called “acceptable” drugs and those that are fully unacceptable and illegal. In many countries out there, marijuana has been legal for a long time now and more recently more and more states in America have legalized it for ...
January 5th, 2015
Using Art and Music to Get Sober
Not all of the treatment at a drug program is centered on directly talking about drugs and addiction. Many of them also incorporate art and music therapy too. Depending on where you go and which program you are involved in, the offerings for these complementary therapies can be very broad. It ...
December 29th, 2014
How do You Stay Sober?
Going to a treatment center will help you get sober, but how do you stay sober? For a lot of people who used drugs to help deal with the stress of their lives, the drugs may have gone away, but the stress is still there. You can’t always change everything to get away from groups […]
December 22nd, 2014
What Do You Do If Your Child is Using Drugs?
If your child is using drugs, there are options for drug treatment for youth that are specifically designed for youth that will help them to recover the opportunity in their lives. Very many of the programs for drug treatment for youth are residential. This can mean a short term or long term ...
December 11th, 2014
What Does it Take to Decide to Stop?
If you are addicted to drugs then you probably know that just wanting to stop isn’t enough to make it happen. Just the fact that you are willing to use the word addiction means you have awareness that there is some kind of dependence on the substance that you don’t have the skills to undo. […]
December 1st, 2014
Teens & Drug Addiction
The truth is that teenagers use the same drugs that adults do. This includes alcohol and various types of cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco. However, teens sometimes use a wide variety of other dangerous drugs. Many teens can become addicted to marijuana, which can be referred to as pot, ...
November 24th, 2014
The Consequences of Drug Abuse
People should know that drug addiction is a disease. Drugs (and alcohol) may feel great while we take them, but the consequences of drugs afterward will definitely want to make us rethink about taking them…or hopefully change our minds about taking them if we haven’t already but were still ...
November 17th, 2014
Why Do People Use Drugs?
The sad reality is that reasons people take drugs is because they believe that it will make their lives better, which is a direct contradiction of the many different health effects of having a drug addiction. Some of the reasons people take drugs include wanting to fit in with the rest of the ...
