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Everyone needs heroes, men and women whom we look up to for inspiration, role-modeling and guidance. Our first impressions of heroes likely stem from our families, with our parents being our first recognized heroes. That’s as it should be, since our parents are the ones who nurture us, keep us from harm, give us unending love and help us grow. As we venture out into the world, into school and other activiti ...

Methamphetamine abuse, although on the decline, is still a significant problem in the United States, and it’s no longer confined to the West and Southwestern portions of the country. Meth use has spread to every state, leaving in its wake thousands of addicts, broken homes and shattered lives. Methamphetamine production, distribution and possession are illegal and dangerous. One population very much affecte ...

Every day it’s the same thing. You come home and your partner is stoned out of his or her mind on marijuana, or snorting coke, doing crack, speedballs, shooting up or popping pills. Things are rapidly going downhill, if they haven’t already. You’ve talked to your partner until you’re blue in the face, and still nothing changes. What more can you do? How in the world can you make him or her stop doing drugs? ...

Smokers trying to abandon their nicotine addiction try many avenues in their quest to quit. They wear the patch, undergo hypnosis treatments, and chew gum. Some try to quit cold turkey. A new intervention involving Virtual Reality (VR) is being used experimentally to help smokers quit (Baumann & Sayette, 2006; Carter, Bordnick Traylor, Day & Paris, 2008). ...

Earl Hightower has conducted over 1,000 interventions since he started in this field in the early 1980s. To learn more about Hightower Intervention visit www.hightowerintervention.com Question: What is case management in the intervention process and why do some families benefit from full case management? Earl: Case management is a pretty broad term that covers a lot of terpurposes of intervention, there are ...

Do you have a secret life involving sexual fantasies and sexual behavior that you’ve gone to great lengths to keep hidden from others? Has your sexual behavior begun to interfere with your life, including your relationships at home, work, with friends and coworkers? Are you spending more and more time to satisfy your sexual desires? If so, you’re leading a double life that not only is bound to catch up with ...

Many years of research have been dedicated to understanding the drinking behaviors of young adults, especially those affected by the lowering of the legal drinking age. Has the lowering of the drinking age provided youth with years to mature and handle the responsibilities of alcohol? ...

Make no mistake about it. Overcoming a gambling addiction is tough work. If it were as simple as just walking away from the casinos, slots, sports betting, track or card games, there’d be a lot fewer problem and compulsive gamblers in the U.S. – and around the world, for that matter. ...