Drugs addiction is one of the most vexing and pervasive problems that almost all the countries have faced. The consequence of such addiction can be devastating. The effects of drug addiction are felt on many levels.

Individuals who use drugs experience physical effects due to their drug addiction. People with drug addiction may experience anxiety, fatigue, depression, and a strong desire to use more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Many drug users engage in criminal...

You can overcome shopping addiction and dependence with the help of a hypnosis CD. Overcoming urges to buy things at the mall and retail stores is very difficult. However, you can walk by a shop without making a purchase with the help of your subconscious mind. It doesn’t matter if your addictive spending is on objects, clothing or online. You can find help.

Nature of Addictive Purchasing

When you buy things in excess, you may have great feelings of elations for a...

Alcohol addiction is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions. While the ingestion of alcohol is necessary to develop alcoholism, the use of alcohol does not necessarily result in addiction. The quantity, frequency and regularity of alcohol consumption combined with the ramifications of financial loss, family disruption, loss of employment and health problems all contribute to the definition.

Contrary to what you may have heard alcohol addiction is not an...

Celebrity singer Johnny Cash is one of the most prolific and respected singers in the history of country music.  What some people don't know is that Johnny Cash has struggled with drug addiction for much of his professional life.  Why would such an amazing and popular singer have a problem with drug addiction?  For the same reasons that everyday people struggle with the same addiction - pressure and stress.

Celebrities are not given a free pass out of the...

About age five, you began a conversation or a running dialogue that will last your entire life. These will be the most important conversations you will ever have, as they will greatly influence who you become and to what degree you will give yourself a chance to succeed in life. This conversation is with you. Over time, nothing is more influential to your ability to give yourself a chance than your self-talk. Indeed, self-talk and self-image are closely entwined.

Like many...

Unfortunately one of the most popular activities online is gambling. For those of us who are not interested in gambling, it may seem odd or unbelievable. But for anyone who likes to gamble or has a gambling problem, online betting is a 24/7 temptation. In 2006, more than $15 billion dollars was spent on online gambling.

In addition to the problem the Internet presents for compulsive gamblers , betting sites are often a teenager's first exposure to Internet gambling and the...

Social attitudes towards smoking have altered dramatically in the past few years. All smokers are well aware of these and are continuously researching easy ways to stop smoking--just like you! Smokers are cutting back little by little to become a lonely minority, and they know that their habit is harming more people than merely themselves--thanks to passive smoke. Virtually everyone desires an easy way to stop smoking, but it’s a rare thing to find someone with a strong enough...

I hope this letter finds you in best of spirits and health. First, allow me to introduce myself. My friends and family call me Bo. My given name is Joseph Edward Tesche. I write to you to tell my story because I feel that what I have to tell is important to millions of people who are suffering or who have suffered like I have in my life and can find no peace and no closure on what they have experienced. Therefore their experience continues to manifest itself in many ways that are...

One main function of Treatment is providing “Tools”, or skills to help resist the “craving” for the drug-of-choice. In the end, though, helping the addict return to normal functioning in society can be the most important and difficult part of the recovery process. Being an addict ruins a person’s life, and it takes a lot of patience to regain the ability to work as a responsible employee, function as a family member, and just generally be a productive...

It may seem like a funny addiction, relationships, who could be addicted to relationships? Well the truth is, more people then you realize. There have been movies made about relationship addictions, think "Fatal Attraction," or "Crush." While they displayed a more extreme version of relationship addictions, none the less, it is a real addiction.

So how does a relationship addiction begin? Usually it happens when a person in the relationship believes that they...