Tips For Helping Someone With Alcoholism

When a person is effected by alcoholism in their family they often want to find a way to help the alcoholic. There are some great tips for helping someone with alcoholism.

Alcohol and Health Effects of Alcohol on the Body

Alcohol and health effects of alcohol on the body can be short term or long term effects. The consumption of alcohol and health related problems can occur over a short time frame, while other conditions and long term effects of alcohol may only happen following years of alcohol abuse. Here are important alcohol health effects.

Television Fast

For a wonderful, healthy and pleasurable experience, I challenge you and your family to take a TV fast. TV addiction is real, and many people have difficulty breaking the TV habit.

Heroin Addiction

Believe it or not, heroin is making a comeback. Unfortunately heroin is catching a ride off the popularity of other gateway drugs such as ecstasy and amphetamines. The threat is real and it seems that the next generation needs to be re-educated as to the horrors of this distructive drug.

An Era of Dependency

How the word dependency has changed since our ancestors. We live in a world where dependency is so prevelant as people do not know how do deal with pain, past or present in their lives.

Back From The Living Dead - Against All Odds - A Tale of Real Life Miracles

Today something very special was about to happen, nothing short of a miracle. I sat on a bench trying to remember just how I got here, trying to make sense of how I wound up with nothing, including my dignity. I began to cry, my face in my hands, trying to protect what little pride I had left. I thought of my little girls and how I let them down, and at that very moment I found two powerful reasons why I needed to fight for my life, the love I have for my girls and the hope they had for me. Yes, today a wonderful Miracle was about to happen and I found enough faith to fight for my life, to fight for my children.

Rehab Equipment

Rehab is commonly perceived in terms of alcohol and drug Rehab. But Rehab units are useful for a number of ailments and disabilities. Rehab units require a range of equipment.

Death From Alcohol Abuse – Not a Pretty Way to Die

Recovery from addictions comes in many guises. Stop the defeat of the spirit, brain damage and eventual total destruction. Greater treatment opportunities and understanding can lead to the best recovery.

The Influence of Heavy Metals on Addiction

Many studies have been done in regard to the heavy metal connection and substance abuse. According to research at the individual level, done through Dartmouth University, the uptake of heavy metals is associated with higher levels of learning disabilities, hyperactivity, substance abuse, violent crimes and other forms of anti-social behavior...

Treatment of Alcoholism

In recent times, alcoholism itself is being recognized as the primary issue to be dealt with rather than underlying social, psychological or physiological factors that may have caused it. Earlier, these factors were considered primary and alcoholism was secondary to these problems; thus treatment was also in that order of priority.

Heroin Addiction

Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It among the most abused and fastest acting of the opiates (opiates, also called narcotics, are a family of drugs which are used in the medical profession to relieve pain, but are also highly abused due to this very property).

Hydrocodone Addiction – A Rising Crisis

Commonly prescribed for its effectiveness as an analgesic or pain reliever, addiction to hydrocodone is today being viewed as a mounting crisis.

Reasons to Quit Smoking

Smoking causes cancer. We’ve all heard that. Everyone knows that lung cancer is one of the most devastating side effects of smoking.

What is an Addiction?

We are addicted to a substance or an activity when we repeatedly crave for it and would go to great lengths (often even detrimental to our well being) to obtain or experience it.

Dysfunctional Characteristics are Inherent in All of Us, More so the Addict and Gambler - SHAME is I

Dysfunctional characteristics are inherent in all of us to some extent.The addict may relate to more than the 'normal person'. However if you have been raised from another 'perfect imperfect human,' being there will be traces of these characteristics.