Alcohol not only harms your liver causing you to have sclerosis of the liver and causes you to have ulcers (soars on the inside of your stomach) it also causes cancer. Alcohol is a colorless, volatile, intoxicating flammable liquid, obtained commercially by distilling wine or other fermented liquors and by the hydration of ethylene, the intoxicating part of fermented drinks. Alcohol is a natural substance formed by the fermenting of sugar and yeast. It is the major active...

How to quit smoking marijuana is not an easy question to answer with a list of pointers and handy hints (though I have written enough of those as well) because the reasons people become addicted to marijuana is a mixed bag of problems in their life that creates a need to escape, zone out or even be more social if they have a group of friends that smoke. In the end smoking weed is about getting high to get away from something and when we become addicted to that high and you feel you NEED...

Quit Smoking Weed - 5 Tips to Help You Quit Smoking Weed

If you're looking for a way to quit smoking weed, you've come to the right place. First off, let me start out by listing the positives and negatives of smoking weed.

Smoking weed reduces your learning ability and it clearly limits the ability to absorb and retain information. Your verbal skills suffer as well. Regular weed smokers are more likely to get chest colds, bronchitis, bronchial asthma and emphysema. Over use...

As we try to tell people on this blog over and over, Cocaine is nothing to fool around with and if you don't take care of your body now, you could experience any of the Cocaine Overdose Symptoms listed below in the near future. If you do cocaine or are thinking about taking this drug, here are some great things you have to look forward to if you're not lucky enough to be part of a Drugs Intervention first.

Increased Heart Rate - When you're on cocaine your heart beats much...

You know that you need to stop chewing tobacco but it seems impossible to stop. You can quit the smokeless tobacco habit with the help of self-hypnosis. Drug addictions help you understand how powerful an addiction really is. Your anti-chew crusade for tobacco chewing help begins with your mind.

Subconscious Addiction

Your subconscious mind is a primary factor in your addictive habit because this is the realm where your automatic responses occur. You don’t always think...

In my outpatient counseling job I see many teenagers turning to drugs and cutting themselves though only a portion go to adolescent drug rehab programs. As I delve into issues with them at the outpatient mental health clinic I work at, the main issues seem to revolve around friendships, boyfriends, family tensions and academic pressures.

It is easy to discount a teen's worries and tell them worrying about a boyfriend at age fourteen isn't important....

This is not a disease that cuddling, warm blankets and pity will help! Addicts do, most often respond to kindness and understanding, when it is properly given or very often, administered by a professional care-giver, or another addict, hopefully in Recovery!

Stop giving in to your heart, at least the one that says openly, “I feel so sorry for you!” This is an invitation for disappointment and even worse, enabling. Most likely, you can’t help but feel sorry...

It is quite common for two addicts or alcoholics to find themselves struggling with relationship addiction because co-dependency accompanied by a drug or alcohol addiction is extremely consuming to those involved.

Drug addiction is epitomised by loneliness and isolation. An addict's drug and alcohol use makes interaction with un-addicted individuals difficult. Shame and guilt and the need to use makes an addict withdraw from society whilst at the same time being pushed away...

Contrary to what you may have heard alcohol addiction is not an incurable brain disease. In fact, it is not a disease at all! But, for decades people have believed that alcohol addiction is a disease. Most psychologists, counselors, specialists and recovery groups today still believe that alcohol addiction is an incurable disease that must be managed for a lifetime, and that "there is no complete cure to stop drinking alcohol!” However, alcohol addiction is not a...

In this guide, the Addictive Disorders discussed refer to health matters dealing with both physical and psychological intense desires or cravings for substances or behaviours that grow into dependency. For example, not only will alcohol and drug dependency be addressed, but addictions dealing with issues like emotional, "things" or "people" attachments. The general concept is that these cravings or yearnings are ongoing in spite of the fact that they cause the...