Addiction of alcohol and depression can be brought to halt. I may not have any kind of personal experience with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA); but as it happens, I do know a couple of people who have used Alcoholics Anonymous program to get their lives back on track.

For that matter, I also know a couple of people who I think could use AA but haven't yet sought treatment. Of course, every person has to decide for themselves when they're ready to get help. Alcohol and depression...

Addiction arises when you reach the point that you loose control of yourself to a substance or certain behavior.  This can be embarrassing especially when your addiction is something unacceptable like masturbation and pornography.  In this case you seem helpless and struggle in seeking aid from other people.  Those who are addicted in internet porn should help themselves to fight the excessive motivations of the adult entertainment industry as well as control urges and...

When you come back and buy more, pornography makes a lot more money from you.  It won't care, and it will continue to show you more.  Billions has been spent in trying to ensnare you.  What could have been a healthy idea of your sexuality has been polluted.  The critical part of who you are becomes twisted with porn addiction.  Your energy is focused n your satisfaction as you begin to think you can have sex anytime and anywhere with anyone.

Excessive use...

Music! It makes Christian recovery rock. In California, this last year or so, it was Santos entertaining attentive Christian audiences with his doo wap singing. In Hawaii, it's been Darrell Mansfield with his steaming harmonica and talented Christian combos.

I remember how well our early history conferences went in Marin County, California when they were accompanied by speaker dances, and my sponsees as DJ's.

Today, you seldom enter a church without seeing a stage...

Drinking and driving is a serious offense that can have deadly consequences.  In recent years the problem of drunk driving has gained nation-wide attention and caused stricter enforcement of existing laws, along with the inception of new laws and penalties for this dangerous crime. When you read Alcoholism Articles it can motivate a change.

In the US each year, about forty percent of traffic fatalities are the result of drunk driving.  Estimates from 2003 run as high as...

Porn addiction has become a common cause for many marital problems.Marriage counseling forums contain countless cries for help from womanso desperate to find help in dealing with  their husband's porn addiction that they "go public" on forums hoping for some good advice on treatments and cures for the addiction.

At a 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, two thirds of the 350 divorce lawyers who attended said the Internet played a significant...

An intervention is not an event--it is a process.  Done properly, a drug intervention or alcohol intervention is carefully planned and executed to maximize its effectiveness.  At Dallas Intervention , we follow the widely-accepted “Johnson Model” of intervention pioneered by Vernon E. Johnson. The Johnson Model is premised on the idea that the most effective intervention approach is to gather concerned relatives and friends of the alcoholic/addict and present...

Substance Abuse starts out being a great trip. But, as you’ve probably found out, the highs you receive after the first few times diminish. Now it takes more and more of the addiction of your choice to “try” to get that same high.

Addicts have lost many important relationships. Many have burned the bridges to the most important people in their life. And they didn’t want to. It’s just that their addiction has control over them and they feel...

People get so stuck on keeping a relationship with a spouse or with relatives...even if they are abusive.Is there an easy answer to this problem?  Yes, and I'm going to give it to you plain and clear...  Get away from them!  Get clear the hell away and don't go back!  If you have to, pack your belongings into your car in the middle of the night and just drive and keep driving until you are safe!  If you're at a family gathering and one of them causes you grief,...

OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE ‘NEW’NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS!

Every year the majority of us greet the New Year with numerous New Year’s resolutions, which if you are anything like me, were last year’s resolutions too! We are full of enthusiasm about our new resolutions and openly rejoice that this is the year we are going to lose weight, stop smoking or become more confident only to fall at the first hurdle and usually during the first month!  So why do...