Anyone addicted to alcohol knows how hard it can be to give up. Anyone living with an alcoholic is equally aware of the power of addiction. But many alcoholics do break the habit and manage to live without recourse to alcohol. They may have an occasional lapse, or they may not, but generally speaking many people succeed. They are known as recovering alcoholics. This is because it is a disease and something from which you can be cured but must always treat with respect.

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Alcohol is freely advertised in many countries. It is relatively cheap and often easily obtained. It is a part of many celebrations and enjoyed by adults both male and female. Alcohol is a legal product. But it is also at the root of many a sad experience. Drunk drivers cause appalling damage to life and limb. Drunken people are involved in fights. Marriages fail and families break up because of alcohol abuse. The cost in lost working hours due to alcohol related problems is too great...

Alcohol is a part of the life of billions of people. For many, for most of them it is not a concern for their health. But for others it is the basis of a serious disease. Addiction to alcohol can cause the destruction of your marriage, the loss of your job, the breakup of your family and even your premature death. It can be a dangerous and deadly product. And so the millions of people who are in trouble because of alcohol have a simple choice; do they wish to beat their addiction?

What are Pharm Parties? New indications are pointing to a disturbing trend in which teens steal prescription drugs from their parents' medicine cabinets and create "prescription cocktails" that can be shared or traded with friends at parties, leading to drug addiction or abuse.

Prescription medications such as Xanax®, OxyContin®, and Ambien® are some of the popular name brand pills that teenagers look for when raiding their household medicine cabinets. These...

You may be considering to enter a drug rehab in orlando, Florida to fight more seriously and effectively your addiction trouble withsubstance abuse. As such, you are making a good decision and you will also need determination firstly to find the appropriate drug rehab centerand also to spend months taking a professional medical assistance. Finding the drug rehab facility is a part of the game you may notbe comfortable in doing as it not an obvious task and could easily take you weeks...

Drinking and driving is a serious offense that can have deadly consequences.  In recent years the problem of drunk driving has gained nation-wide attention and caused stricter enforcement of existing laws, along with the inception of new laws and penalties for this dangerous crime. When you read Alcoholism Articles it can motivate a change.

In the US each year, about forty percent of traffic fatalities are the result of drunk driving.  Estimates from 2003 run as high as...

In 2008, a study concluded that the over diagnosis of bipolar disorder is now a greater concern than the under diagnosis. Fewer than half of previously diagnosed bipolar disorder patients retested under the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) actually qualified under the psychiatric terms for bipolar disorder diagnosis.

The study was conducted by principle investigator, Mark Zimmerman, M.D., with the Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers.

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A natural solution for dilaudid addiction man made problem

If you are having problems with dilaudid addiction hydromorphone, you need to know that there is a natural way out. It's hold can be devastating to your health, but can be even more harmful to your spirit. Addiction can seem like a battle that cannot be won, but I assure you that there is an answer. You have to first get the idea that this man made substance is not in any way good for you. That is what your body is...

Happiness is not something you need to chase; it is your natural state of being and is always available to you. There are literally thousands of self-help books and gurus out there now in the world, all touting ideas about what it takes to be happy. In fact, the pursuit of happiness is so popular that the formal birth of a new field of psychology called "positive psychology" was implemented in 1998 by Dr. Martin Seligman, the then president of the American Psychological...

Tiger Woods, Sex Addiction And The Low Self Worth Spiral

A lot has been written about Tiger Woods' cheating on his wife Elin and why he would do such a thing. Some have suggested that he was just ‘being a guy' or that perhaps he had gotten married too young and needed to sew his oats. I think these people are missing the true cause completely because they don't understand sex addiction and how low self worth can spiral into a self destructive pattern that only ends...