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...

Christian treatment facilities have the ability to emphasize the increasing popularity and growth that they are experiencing. They do this in view of the fact that there are many addicts out in the world that need their help and need it badly. In these faith based centers, the addict gets his or her hands on the pure Word of God without any inclination to be persuaded to choose religions. The centers try to initiate a relationship with God first. Church and religion have their own...

Porn is giving me great pleasures, I feel like I am in heaven for sometime, after a days boring work in this tough world, I need to see those wonderful bodies to relax, its a great world, What is wrong with it? Why quit porn?

This is an interesting question, I asked this to myself for a long time, why quit porn? If you strongly are religious, then there is a reason for you to quit porn, because its anti-religious, most religions hate porn. but what if if you are not...

Teen drug treatment facilities have shown that there is a growing number of teenage drug abuse cases in the United States. It is not just the ‘bad kids' who are into it but even those who are  being victims of too much parental control, sexual abuse, those who suffer lack of self-esteem and those who are neglected etc.   By now, it has also become evident that prescription drug abuse is also high among teens.

Apart from nicotine, tobacco and alcohol use...

Over the decades there has beenfighting between the smokers and the non-smokers.  Non-smokers complain about breathing in the second hand smoke, the smell caused by cigarette smoke, the health risks and the list goes on.   The smokers on the other hand were defending their rights to smoke.

Then it happened.  The law took over andbanned smoking in all public locations.  At first it was subtle.  Smokers could not smoke inside buildings any...