ADDICTION TREATMENTS: Understanding the Stages of Addiction and the Stages of Recovery
ADDICTION TREATMENTS: Understanding the Stages of Addiction and the Stages of Recovery
One way that drug addiction is different from other addictions is that it involves an illegal substance. This automatically puts the addict into a different realm of addiction. However, the addiction factor is just the same as other addictions but has the added risk of the law involvement. There is often a serious financial down fall that surrounds the drug addict because drugs… Continue reading
National Recovery Month Approaching
Canadian OK (PRWEB) August 20, 2006
This year’s National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month theme is “Join the Voices for Recovery – Build a Stronger, Healthier Community.” That is exactly what several graduates and staff members from Narconon Arrowhead have done, and their personal stories of having recovered from addiction are prominently displayed in the National Recovery Month kit.
One of the stories is from Narconon Arrowhead’s Executive Director Gary W. Smith.… Continue reading
Recovery Now Episode 3 Segment 2
Cindy describes the benefits of staging an intervention on a loved one in need of help. She relates her first-hand experience with the intervention process and fields questions from audience members concerned about the addicts in their lives.
Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful: Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery
Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful: Alcoholism, Addiction and Early Recovery
Written at the end of 1999, when Chris McCully was hospitalised and treated for alcoholism for the third time, and during 2003, when he left England to begin a new career as a writer in the Netherlands, this is an honest, and at times painful, account of his ongoing recovery. Alcoholism is a lifelong condition from which there is no cure. Chris McCully does not offer warnings… Continue reading
Psychopharmacology and Recovery Part 5 of 13
Empathy, Altruism, and Learning: What psychopharmacology can learn from 12 Step Recovery – Part V – Applying the Dopamine Hypothesis to Cocaine Addiction. Dr. David Sack, of Promises Treatment Centers talks about helping addicts with a combination of medication and therapy.
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Getting Alcohol Recovery
Getting Alcohol Recovery
Although some people are able to recover from alcoholism without help, the majority of alcoholics need assistance. With treatment and support, many individuals are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives. Many people wonder why some individuals can use alcohol without problems but others cannot. One important reason has to do with genetics. Scientists have found that having an alcoholic family member makes it more likely that if… Continue reading