If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!While alcohol addiction affects families in the thousands across the United States, there is a growing, if not larger, number of people who are affected when their loved ones are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. An article that was […]
Sometimes life after drug and alcohol addiction recovery can be extremely difficult. Some people find if extremely difficult to fight the urges they once had with drugs and/or alcohol. Therefore, in an effort to not be tempted into doing drugs again, they remove themselves from situations where there may be drugs and/or alcohol. […]
Turning 21 years old never seemed so deadly. It’s absolutely amazing how accepting Americans are of alcohol sometimes. We embrace it and even encourage it with games such as “21 for 21″. According to this popular alcoholic drinking game, a person (who is typically in college by this age) drinks 21 alcoholic […]
According to an article that was printed in a British newspaper, almost 5,000 children under the age of 18 were hospitalized last year because of drinking too much alcohol. According to data from the National Health Service (NHS), in 2006/2007, the equivalent of approximately 100 children per week ended up in a hospital […]
…and here I am sitting in my car in the middle of the night not knowing where to go, who to talk to- the phone in my hands, but I don’t have anyone that I can call- what would I say if I could tell someone what was wrong with me.? Even I didn’t know […]
Alcohol affects each person differently. If you don’t believe me, ask any drug and alcohol recovery center that deals with recovering alcoholics. But it doesn’t take a recovering alcohol addict to tell you how they behaved in any given situation while under the influence of alcohol. If you look around […]
In today’s society, alcohol is all around us. It’s in advertising on television commercials; it’s in the movies; it’s at social functions. But why do we feel the need to consume it? What is it that drives an individual to become addicted to alcohol?
Perhaps it’s the way society has made alcohol so […]
It is gradually becoming more understood by the medical community as well as the general populace that alcoholism is an actual disease, much like depression. What isn’t understood nearly as well is why the two diseases are so often connected. Does depression cause alcoholism, or the other way around? Is there a way to […]
Every family has a history and every family has genetic traits. What becomes of the family when one of those genetic traits is alcoholism and the family can trace the drinking back through the generations? Well, if the cycle is not stopped, eventually the family will fall apart. Alcoholism is a member of many dysfunctional […]
A Better Way
Traditional alcohol addiction therapy involves a 28-day program that focuses on getting the sober and teaching him the steps of the 12 Step Program model. This gives a man addicted to alcohol a good start, but then leaves him on his own to figure it out. Frustration and even relapse often […]
