Category: Alcohol Addiction

When many people stop using drugs and alcohol, they find that they have a whole lot of extra time on their hands. All the time that they previously spent getting loaded, making money to get more drugs and alcohol, masterminding and perpetrating fraud, burglary and [...]

Very often, when drug or alcohol addiction is an issue, so too is addiction to other vices like gambling. The rush and the high from gambling is not unlike the high associated with drugs and alcohol. Certainly, the same pleasure pathway in the brain is [...]

We’ve talked recently about those who get out of legal consequences for their actions by focusing on their alcohol and drug addiction issues. Here’s another case where a man is getting out of jail early pending trial in order to enter inpatient drug rehab. Because [...]

Part of any drug addiction treatment program as well as most people’s lives after they graduate from drug and alcohol rehab are 12-step meetings: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and others. These meetings are open to anyone who identifies themselves as an addict (in some cases, [...]

For parents, there are few things worse than discovering that their child is addicted to drugs and alcohol. But there’s one thing that few parents realize: there are few things worse for your child to discover about him or herself as well. As the anti-drug [...]

At a time when modern medicine is pushing the limits of what we once thought possible, more and more drug rehab facilities are reaching back thousands of years for the latest treatment modality: holistic care. 3 Ways Holistic Care Helps Treat Addiction Yoga. The age-old [...]

When a parent develops an alcohol or drug addiction, kids often bear much of the fallout. They feel the stress of the situation much more deeply than anyone can imagine, and as such, individuals in addiction recovery need to talk openly and honestly with the [...]

It’s a sign of the times: kids now spend more time online than they do watching TV, going to the movies or playing video games. Parents may occasionally check in to see what they’re children are doing while surfing the web – and most probably [...]

One of the most serious issues pertaining to medical treatment in the United States concerns doctors who have developed a drug addiction, yet continue to provide care to their patients without receiving proper treatment themselves. For years, this problem went unchecked in the medical community, [...]

Some Hollywood directors, such as Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) go to great lengths to portray drug addiction and substance abuse in as realistic manner as possible in their films. They capture every grueling aspect of addiction -from the euphoric [...]