Many people once believed that the best way to help a loved one with a substance abuse problem was to wait until he or she hit a state that could be referred to as “rock bottom.” Unfortunately, this implies that addiction is somehow different from other severe health conditions. For example, no one would ever …
For many people in recovery, the holidays can be challenging. But you don’t have to let unfulfilled expectations and stressful family dysfunction ruin your sobriety—you just need to engage in a bit of planning. Start preparing your strategy now, and consider the following tips to help you along! 13 Tips for Holiday Sobriety Tip #1 …
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Addiction is a chronic disease that can thoroughly destroy a person’s life. Fortunately, however, treatments exist that can address its many causes and help an individual recover and regain physical and emotional stability. While therapy, counseling, and aftercare planning can address many emotional difficulties, medications used for addiction treatment can help to ease the challenging …
The link between substance abuse and sex addiction supports the idea that addiction itself is not about a moral failing. Instead, compulsions to activate the brain’s reward system by engaging in impulsive, destructive behavior. Like drug addicts, sex addicts become dependent on the feelings they experience when specific changes occur in the brain. To intensify …
According to statistics, an estimated 10% of Americans experience a substance disorder at some point in their lives. Addiction is an unyielding, chronic disease, and once a person is afflicted, he or she will remain afflicted for life. Like other diseases, addiction has a relatively high rate of relapse. Although many people recover successfully for the …
