Addiction Treatment

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If you’ve come to the realization that you need professional treatment to overcome your addiction, that’s a good first step. In fact, you won’t get anywhere without such a realization, backed by a solid commitment to see treatment through to completion. The next step is to get into treatment. First, however, you need to take a look at all the different treatment options available to you and figure out which ...

Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. But the fact is that people with mental health problems are among those with the highest smoking prevalence. According to the most recent estimates, 75 percent of people with mental health problems or addictions smoke cigarettes, compared to 23 percent of the general population. Americans with mental health problems represent an ...

Cluster addiction and co-occurring disorders, or a combination of multiple addictions and mental health disorders are quite common among persons seeking addiction treatment. Based on recent and ongoing research, we now know that eating disorders and substance abuse share some very important characteristics. These characteristics point not only to commonalities between the two, but also to the promise of eff ...

They’re everywhere you look – millions of Americans, in fact – hooked on instantly communicating with their friends via social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Friendster, and others. Driver inattention while texting or sending messages to these sites causes untold numbers of accidents on the highway. Students furiously typing away at their laptops on college ...

Anyone who’s beginning treatment or living in early recovery recognizes that this is a whole new chapter in their life. Not all of those initial chapters are either predictable or pre-ordained. Much like a novel, what happens next is often quite surprising. It’s certainly filled with challenges. Using the book analogy to your journey to recovery is helpful because of the numerous parallels that are easy to ...

If you’ve made the difficult decision to stop drinking, you’ve already taken the all-important first step. Nothing happens without conscious intent – especially when it comes to altering behavior involving alcohol. Whether you were a moderate drinker who has stepped over the line and become a problem drinker or someone who has been abusing alcohol for quite some time, changing your ingrained patterns of dri ...

It’s no surprise to anyone who smokes cigarettes today that the additives in the tobacco are stronger than they were a decade or so ago. That some people can smoke a cigarette now and then without becoming a pack or more smokers a day is actually a rarity. The reality is that it’s far more likely that even casual smoker will become addicted to nicotine – and faster than they think. For some, it’s a built-in ...

Before any new drug can be marketed to the public, it has to go through a complicated and lengthy testing and approval process through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This process entails successful completion of various stages, including clinical trials. At any point along the way, testing may be stalled, halted, or lengthened due to FDA requests for additional information or further clinical trial ...

Prison is a tough place to be. For inmates, deserved or not, who are serving their time as mandated by the criminal justice system, it can be a festering stew, an unending cauldron of violence, or a time for reshaping their lives, coming clean, and learning how to live a life free of substance abuse or addiction. According to a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Colum ...

Anyone who’s heard of Alcoholics Anonymous knows the name of Bill W., one of the co-founders of the organization, along with Dr. Bob. But the story of Bill W. or, better yet, the story of Lois Wilson, Bill’s wife, is little known. But watch the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie - When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story – and you can’t but help to marvel at the grit, determination and love this woman had fo ...