Alcohol addiction has become one of the serious problems of the world today. What makes people hooked to alcohol? Is there anything to blame rather than the person himself? What causes alcohol addiction? Information like these are vital in understanding alcoholics and helping them beat their addiction.

Stories of people with drinking problem have become so common, to the point that some people just ignore them. But these people need more than just a cold shoulder, they need...

You can overcome drug addiction by taking a comprehensive approach to this problem. Treatment can be augmented with self-hypnosis for maximum effects. You may seek help for overcoming prescription medicine, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana or nearly any other medicine found in a pharmacy. Substance abuse is a serious matter that requires attention.

How Addictive Problems Help

It may be surprising but substance addictions help you recognize that you have issues that need to be...

Without question one of the more successful treatment models has been the 12 step program, which originated with Alcoholics anonymous. In the past several years the program has suffered a great deal of scrutiny in regards to its religious formatting, and even though it has desperately attempted to escape this labeling, for all intent and purposes that’s what it is! However, the religious aspect is not what makes successful, and in fact I believe it to be a detriment to the...

Without question one of the more successful treatment models has been the 12 step program, which originated with Alcoholics anonymous. In the past several years the program has suffered a great deal of scrutiny in regards to its religious formatting, and even though it has desperately attempted to escape this labeling, for all intent and purposes that’s what it is! However, the religious aspect is not what makes successful, and in fact I believe it to be a detriment to the...

When we talk of the effects of alcoholism, we got to divide them into physical and mental or psychological effects. Both these effects of alcohol are equally important, if one is leading to physical handicap the other is leading to a mental handicap. Effects of alcohol manifest at different times in different individuals, for example if one is affected after thirty years of alcohol abuse the other person may start getting affected only after three years. This is because every human body...

The question of why people abuse alcohol? Does arise in our minds, alcohol is a mood elevator. Drinking alcohol elevates the mood by releasing serotonin and dopamine both these are chemicals which bring about a sense of well being and euphoria. In addition alcohol reduces GABA a brain chemical and increases secretion of nor epinephrine which causes a pleasant state of arousal. All these are features which make alcohol one of the most popular abusive substances; the problem is with...

Despite pot being a soft drug compared to many such as heroin or ice it is highly addictive but for reasons people do not often give it credit for. Marijuana, pot, weed, hash or many other terms is a drug that gives a chemically induced high but it does not give the body a chemical that it becomes dependant on like nicotine in cigarettes.

The reason for the addiction is that people often smoke pot to escape from something in their life’s, the soothing numbing effect of...

Bad habits plague many people in one form or another. We want to know what causes us to fall into bad habits. Questions arise about how are the best ways to quit. New research gives new answers and confirms some of the old ones.

Some research has been done to find out what motivates people to quit bad habits. It turns out that the emotional reasons seem to be the most telling of all. If a person does not have the desire to change, then that person is likely not to have any...

People often come to relationships with bad habits when it comes to getting along with another person. They may have every intention of making a relationship work, but ingrained trends stop them from truly connecting. There are many such bad habits.

Jealousy plagues many otherwise good relationships. A boyfriend might always suspect his girlfriend of going around with other men. Or, it could be more subtle. A woman may suspect that her husband is constantly looking for...

In the words of Rhonda Byron, 'an individual is the most powerful magnet in the universe. He contains a magnetic power within himself that is more powerful than anything in this world and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through his thoughts'. Power of mind is the strongest weapon that differentiates human beings from other forms of living.

Human mind as per psychological definition is divided into the conscious and the unconscious segments. It has been frequently...