Addiction interferes with your relationships, health, finances and your sanity. It causes people in your life to feel betrayed, cheated and disconnected from you. You have more arguments, misunderstandings and you end up feeling alone. Continuing substance abuse seems like the easiest way to decreases stress, frustration and unwanted feelings. You can’t seem to find [...]
Drug & Alcohol Rehab
Do you ever feel detached and scared because you want to relapse? Sometimes the desire to use drugs and alcohol may still be there even after you have attended a drug rehab. Don’t be alarmed by this feeling. There is an explanation why it happens: Your old coping skill was to use drugs and alcohol [...]
It’s never easy to watch a family member struggle with addiction. You feel helpless and angry while attempting to protect them from societal judgments. I recently caught up on the “Deadliest Catch” series on the Discovery Channel. I watched an episode titled ‘Revelation,’ in which crew members Jake Anderson and Edgar Hansen from the F/V [...]
I recently read an interesting article correlating infertility in women with the development of alcoholism. It’s upsetting to believe that the disappointment of not being able to have kids would lead to alcohol abuse. But, isn’t this the way that addiction works? Oftentimes we get disappointed about not meeting expectations that we have about our [...]
President Obama signed the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 placing synthetic compounds found in synthetic marijuana (spice, K-2), synthetic stimulants (bath salts) and hallucinogens under the Schedule I of Controlled Substances Act. When a drug is classified as Schedule I, it means that the drug has no medical use or purpose and should [...]
Drug use, addiction and trafficking are seen as taboo for those of the Muslim religion; however, there is one Mosque in Malaysia which has a pilot methadone program. In Malaysia, many men are being diagnosed with HIV from intravenous drug use. Harm reduction programs have been established for needle exchange to help decrease the use [...]
What makes a place the “best alcohol rehab?” It’s amusing that we chronically poison our bodies with alcohol, but when it comes time to stop we only want the best alcohol rehab for ourselves. We seem to constantly find excuses as to why we shouldn’t enter alcohol rehab. Questions that are commonly asked by alcoholics [...]
Adele, famous songwriter and singer, has a biography that has been released depicting her career, relationships and potential alcohol addiction that could have ended her career. The author discusses Adele’s struggles and her father’s history of alcoholism. She ties this into Adele’s history of choosing men in her life who are unable to give her [...]
Bevan Dufty, a former Castro District Supervisor in San Francisco, is pushing a plan for homeless shelters that provide alcoholics with booze so they don’t have to quit cold turkey. These wet houses would be staffed with therapists and those familiar with treatment in alcohol rehab who would provide addiction counseling while the residents are [...]
Army documents show that in 2010 a soldier overdosed in Afghanistan after taking several drugs including morphine and codeine, even though the drugs were not prescribed to him. The growing epidemic of soldiers who are suffering from addiction goes under reported in our society. Fortunately, CNN published an article depicting just how widespread this situation [...]
