Addiction is an illness in its own right and could cause the victim from achieving goals or reaching acceptable standards in different spheres of life due to too much stickablity. It is mainly a repetition of excessive behavior, more often negative ones, and the addict finds it very difficult to stop despite the harmful consequences.

It could be psychological addiction to narcotics addiction, tobacco addiction, alcohol cravings, online gambling addiction, watching too much...

Rehab is usually a very intense focus to get you out of your addiction and into a stable environment. Stable as far as getting you off your drug of choice, and getting you to the point where you don’t want to relapse.

Then what?

If you’ve identified God as your “higher power,” then you’re on the right track. But what does God want you to do with your life? Has He given up on you? No!

You may be thinking of all the bad...

Last summer (August 2009) I came across and article on internet addiction in the New York Times, focusing on how the internet permeates everyday family life, often intruding upon the face to face activities that traditionally connect members of a household together. Although, in may cases the behavior is not considered an obsession, it is growing exponentially to the point that the editors of theDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM), published by...

One thing every smoker would like is to conintue their habit without having to be worried about all the associated risks that go with it. Many alternatives to smoking are expensive and unpleasant and all too often don't achieve what you hoped they would. It often seems that the pharmeceutical companies are the only real winners in these methods. They removed the need for going at it with willpower alone but the replacements were unsatisfactory to say the least.

What smokers...

Over the past several decades the phrase "Chemical Imbalance" has become a household term that has evolved into the preconceived concept of a brain disease that is directly responsible for depression and psychological disorders. Obviously, no one would come to this conclusion without a little persuasion from the psychiatric community, pharmaceutical companies, or the media! But, what exactly is a chemical imbalance and how does it play a role in addictive behavior? First let's...

Alcoholism is a progressive disease that will show the symptoms of loss of control, dysfunction in various parts of organs and so on. Alcoholism is studied via four stages. Such stages of alcoholism are described below:

First stage of alcoholism:

In the first stage of alcoholism, drinking will become a way to escape stress and problems. The drinker will experience some mood altering effects. In this stage, the person will increase the amount of drinking in order...

Alcoholism and dui information in Spanish would not be any different from information on alcohol in any other language. Alcohol is an abusive substance giving the user a sense of euphoria. The problem is that amount of substance needed to create this sense of euphoria goes on increasing with regular drinking.

Alcoholism and dui information in Spanish tells us the same story, the social devastation caused by this poison. Most people get into this habit as teenagers; it is peer...

Nowadays you can find a lot of drug rehab center around the world. Each center offer many programs which claim can help drug abuser solve their addiction problem. The question is: Are drug abusers really need treatment from rehab center? Or that place only waste the money without noteworthy results?

When the television, newspaper, or magazine give news about celebrities "recurring" to drug dependence program for the third or fourth time, many people think that rehab...

I want you to stop reading for just a minute and ask yourself, "Is my computer addiction ruining my life?" You will agree with me that the presence of  twitter, facebook and other social networking sites one can't help updating his status on his account (otherwise known as wall,) chatting with friends etc.

Sometimes we do multi tasking while in our work places with the excuse of the quote, "too much work with less play makes Jack a dull boy." The cost...

An intervention is not an event--it is a process.  Done properly, a drug intervention or alcohol intervention is carefully planned and executed to maximize its effectiveness.  At Dallas Intervention , we follow the widely-accepted “Johnson Model” of intervention pioneered by Vernon E. Johnson. The Johnson Model is premised on the idea that the most effective intervention approach is to gather concerned relatives and friends of the alcoholic/addict and present...