Of the many drug related cases that teen addiction rehabs get, one of the most common ones include Ecstasy addiction.  Also referred to as ‘X' and ‘XTC', Hug, ‘Love Drug, Lover's Speed and Beans; this recreational drug which is used mostly in club parties and raves is increasingly abused by people in their teens and early 20s.  The scientific name for Ecstasy is MDMA or methylenedioxymethamphetamine and is known to have properties that can mimic the effects...

Most of us tend to be shocked when we hear about drug addiction among teenagers and wonder how kids these days abuse drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin etc. But most of us are not aware about an equally demonic prescription drug addiction, a life-threatening drug abuse that permeates in the homes of people, not on the shady lanes of the city nook and corners. Yes, prescription drug addiction is one of the worst and fast increasing drug addictions that are actually tilting drug abuse...

An alcohol addict in his or her teens can be an embarrassing thing to parents as well as the society. This is not the age to drink and lay sprawled on the footpath but the age to study, work and create a successful name and identity. But still there are many teens that do exactly the opposite and are alcohol addicts, according to Teen%20Recovery%20Centers" teen recovery centers .

Teen alcohol addiction is something that cannot be neglected because there are way too many problems...

Alcohol can have a very negative impact on your stomach and is very dangerous. It becomes very hard for your body to create natural digestive fluids as well as failing to absorb food which it can't even digest properly. Alcoholics usually go through periods of nausea, distention or prostration. You are prone to want to drink more when you are in this condition as well as want to eat more. You can also face dyspepsia which is a permanent drinking disorder. If you find that you consume...

Passively planning to try harder next time or in the future is absolutely ineffective in ending porn addiction. It takes real, deliberate shift in focus and mental awareness to cure porn addiction. I know the frustrations you must be feeling. Nothing is more discouraging than trying to beat a hard wired habit that you feel emotionally and physically chained to, but there is hope! I bet you are ready for change!

In this article I will go over some mental processes you can...

You may wish to block porn sites for numerous reasons. The usual reason is to protect your children from having access to sexual sites. The easiest way to block porn sites is by using software designed to do just that.

You will find there are plenty of parental control programs available, what you should look out for is one which allows you to block porn sites specifically as well as a program which checks the sites currently being viewed and is able to block on an ad hoc...

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 by William Griffith Wilson. Bill grew up in a in a small quarry town in Vermont. When he was ten, his hard-drinking father abandoned him and moved to Canada. Bills mother followed suit when she left him with his grandparents and moved to Boston to study osteopathic medicine. He was educated at the prestigious Burton and Burr academy before joining the Army at the onset of US involvement in W.W. I. It was in the military that he discovered that he...

Giving up weed is a personal choice for those whose pot smoking habits are becoming uncontrollable and are damaging their life. While not everyone who smokes pot is addicted or has negative effects from their smoking many that are having trouble with addiction and pot often need to see the positive benefits of being off the drug to start their journey. The benefits of giving up marijuana are many and varied but 5 of the most common perks that ex-potheads mention are as...

The very word, 'addict', means a "person who is given up to a habit, especially something bad or harmful". Here lies the seriousness of the problem. We find an ever-increasing number of alcohol addicts now-a-days who are far more sophisticated and serious than De Quincey's "English opium-eater" or Bankimchandra's opium-addict, "Kamalakanta".

Causes may be many and diverse. Parental neglect, frustration, imitation of the West, social indiscipline...

The anti-social nature of drug addiction results in a "Life-Style". The addict becomes out-of-synch with the social structure in which he must live. Addicts begin to associate only with other addicts or drug dealers and then transcend into the subculture of drug use. Paranoia triggered by many different things, and at many different levels, causes the addict to become less and less comfortable around anyone who is not doing the same as they are, partially because they are...