Your first inclination might be to get angry when you find out your teen is using drugs. This a normal reaction, but please know that anger and yelling will just turn your teen's ears to the "off" position. You need to let your teen know you care about them and that you just want the best for them. You must place responsibility for their actions on their own shoulders and make them accountable without doing so in a threatening manner. Honest, open communication is the key...

We all need information on the issues that affect us. We need to hear about other people's experiences and how they have been able to deal with problems that are almost similar to what we might be going through. It is a common saying that a problem shared is half solved. Articles that have been written by other people act as good reference points for us when we want to know how to deal with world wide problems like alcoholism.

Many people dismiss addiction to alcohol as a...

What are some things you can remember before you decide to go back to the gambling casino after months of staying away? Well there are many things that should come to mind before you decide to go back on that self destructive path. These thoughts should create enough bad feelings in you to stop you from getting back in the car and returning to your gambling addiction and the despondency it causes.

1.       Remember how you felt...

Often, when working with families with young people in treatment for alcohol and/or substance abuse, there comes a time when parents must choose a path with the young person that can be a painful one.  A fork in the road appears when the young person has not yet made a full commitment to sobriety and a decision needs to be made about how to respond.  This is particularly difficult when it is time for the young person to come home.

The normal path of separation...

Drug Addiction Treatment is costly! For a celebrity or someone in an upper income level, I suppose it's affordable. The problem is that most Addicts are not in those positions. In fact, honestly, most Addicts are not even in an income level; by the time their disease advances to the point that Treatment becomes a considered option!

Rarely, Treatment is offered at $1500 to $2000 per month. For an example of where the upper end is, look at "Promises" in Malibu. A...

I believe there to be a commonality or square root in all self destructive behavior, which causes an individual to choose addiction. I also believe that addiction is a choice, and it is not caused by an incurable brain disease, a genetic predisposition, learned behavior or a chemical imbalance. However, before I describe “The Square Root of Addiction”I want to walk you through each of the existing theories related to addiction. Currently, there are four main...

You don't want to end up in an alcohol treatment center. They have good intentions – the orderlies are all polite and charming – but really, it's little better than a prison. You get to see them as wardens or orderlies in a loony bin. They watch your every move, and check on you when they think you are going wrong. Not very pleasant, right? But you'd bet it's a lot better than waking up in the gutters after a night's spell of drunken stupor.

Getting to talk about...

Alcoholism is a condition arises due to continuous consumption of alcohol. Nowadays it is becoming a serious problem. It may lead to life threatening side effects and sometimes even to death. In medical terms, alcoholism is a disease which results due to the negative effects of alcohol. The quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption will vary from person to person in order to develop alcoholism. Causes of alcoholism are as follows;

The exact cause of alcoholism is not yet...

Alcoholism is becoming a serious problem nowadays. Alcoholism addiction treatment methods are available in various parts of United States to help the alcoholic. Health recovery center struggles hard to provide treatment to alcohol addictions and to gain back the normal health. The reliable way of restoring health is to get a long term treatment via orthomolecular intervention. Alcohol addiction will cause mental and physical problems. Orthomolecular intervention will help in regaining...

Many people dismiss a treatment for pot addiction as frivolous as they believe that quitting pot should be easy as there is no chemical such as nicotine to form a physical addiction to the drug. This is a simplistic view however as pot addiction is as real as alcohol addiction, gambling addiction and many other addictions known as psychological addictions where the need is not a physical craving but an intense want that drives us back again and again to whatever activity or substance we...