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...

Celebrity singer Johnny Cash is one of the most prolific and respected singers in the history of country music.  What some people don't know is that Johnny Cash has struggled with drug addiction for much of his professional life.  Why would such an amazing and popular singer have a problem with drug addiction?  For the same reasons that everyday people struggle with the same addiction - pressure and stress.

Celebrities are not given a free pass out of the...

For decades the research, both formal studies and informal observations, has shown that some alcoholics could return to moderate or controlled drinking, and that many do. However, Alcoholics Anonymous and other powerful recovery programs have defined an alcoholic as a person who can never again drink in moderation. This has placed them in the curious position of maintaining that someone who returns to moderate drinking wasn't an alcoholic - not matter how obvious the evidence to the...

Pornography can destroy any relationship.

More and more people are being exposed to more and more porn every day on the Internet. It's a known phenomena and the problem of online porn is growing rapidly. Until recently, most people thought that a porn filter was something you need on your computer only if you are concerned about your children seeing adult content. This is not true and here is why.

Porn threatens all marriages

For married couples and boyfriends and...

Vicodin addiction help

I wonder how many little old ladies are running around with anaddiction to vicodin. I know I have seen a lot of older women at 12 step meetings with prescription drug addictions. Some of them started out taking pain medication prescribed by their physician. Then one day the drug failed to ease the pain like in usually did so they took an extra dose. The thing is when drugs like vicodin are not taken like they were prescribed the person will...

Hoarders are extremely obsessed with gathering and accumulating things. In some cases you will also find them collecting animals. Here they are getting connected with live creatures and it is even more difficult to let go of them. Family members of these hoarders have seen extreme situations whereby in the event of death of the animal, these hoarders become very frustrated and it gets very difficult to control them. These people cause a lot of inconvenience to the family members,...

There are lots of methods which can be implemented when someone who has drinking problems is planning to quit drinking alcohol . They are readily available nowadays and a person can obtain it as soon as he or she realizes his wrong doings. One way to overcome the effects of alcoholism is through therapy. When someone has problems with alcohol and is abusing the substance for a long period of time because of personal issues and conflicts, a good way to fight this is by means of...

Drug abuse is a menace to the life of the addict, his family and friends and to the society.
It is like a chain that binds one's life to endless misery and pointless dependence.
As addiction sinks in, the body of the addict longs for drugs to sustain its metabolic process. This happens until addiction begins to change the chemical physiology of the victim's brain. At this stage, the addict becomes utterly dependent on drugs to the point of literally losing one's self.

The complexity of drug addiction often involves the association of psychological and emotional disorders with chemical imbalance. It is indeed a complex illness that requires careful observation of the patient, and the precise scheming and execution of the different kinds of treatments possible to treat it.

Choosing the right drug addiction recovery center is critical to dealing with such complexity of drug addiction. Yet the selection process itself is also complex. To ensure the...

In this modern world, people have personal concepts and ideas of what alcohol addiction, alcohol abuse and binge drinking is all about. But what makes an addiction or what are the reasons why people have becoming possessed by the addictive substance is another story. The ingredients and aspects behind alcohol addiction or alcoholism are very much different to each individual. Alcoholism treatments and rehab programs provided by alcohol rehab for an inpatient can require different...