Drug Abuse and Addiction Treatment Articles

Lakeview Health Systems is dedicated to providing you with the necessary information about drug addiction, mental health disorders, addiction treatment protocols and a host of other subjects related to improving your health and increasing your chances of maintaining long-term abstinence. Understanding the dynamics between addiction and the body -including the physical, emotional, and psychological effects of drugs and alcohol -as well as the impact of addiction treatment can help you or a loved one make the right choice to get into drug rehabilitation program and address a problem with substance abuse. Treatment works! We will regularly update our articles to offer you.

The Holistic Approach to Recovery May 14, 2013 Many addiction rehab centers offer holistic treatment as supplemental therapy. Holistic treatment focuses on the whole person. Its purpose is to balance the body, mind, spirit and emotions to achieve the healthiest state.

Pain Management or Addiction? May 7, 2013 If you have pain, you want to relieve it the best you can, as quickly as you can. If it’s chronic pain, you may have even less patience. But as tempting as pain relief is, you might find yourself thinking about the consequences of taking or not taking the drug.

The Cost of Addiction April 30, 2013 You spend your own time looking for your next high and going to great lengths to get money for your habit. You are dealing with the physical consequences of your drug use. You are the only one who knows how painful withdrawal symptoms feel.

Ditch Your Legal Drug Stash This Saturday April 23, 2013 Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions and it’s an epidemic that spreads from every bathroom medicine cabinet. You can help slow it down by getting rid of unused prescription drugs safely this Saturday.

Alcoholism: Keeping It in the Family March 26, 2013 Think back to holidays, weddings or reunions when the entire family got together. There always seems to be that one family member who drinks just a bit too much.

A Woman's Helper: Alcohol March 5, 2013 “Six million women in the United States abuse or are dependent on alcohol,” Columbia University researchers concluded. Many women have come to rely on alcohol to help them relax, decrease stress, help with sleep problems, cope with mood and manage relationship issues.

Abuse and Addiction: Cycles of Destruction February 26, 2013 Abuse is a boundary violation and most commonly, but not exclusively, experienced in childhood. Childhood abuse can develop a pattern that follows you into adulthood.

The Popularity of Celebrity Addiction Treatment February 19, 2013 While some consider the advent of "celebrity rehabs" to be exploitative, others view them poignant portrayals of the dark recesses of addiction and demise. Reality, as it were, includes both the negatives and positives of life.

Nicotine Is a Drug: Protect Your Health by Quitting February 12, 2013 The dangers associated with smoking are vast. Smoking affects virtually all organs within the body and is attributed to the deaths of more than 440,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Mental Health Treatment: Coping with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder February 4, 2013 Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a specific type of anxiety disorder that is characterized by unreasonable fears and thoughts, followed by a ritualistic behavior.