Inside The Addict -- Understanding Addiction

To have been an addict and gone through a successful recovery program (with a continued care plan) gives you a deeper understanding of how someone can become an addict and how even the least likely person can fall into addiction. Drug and alcohol addiction is a dependency that develops through repeated consumption that ultimately changes your brain and body chemistry and becomes the driving force behind addiction. Mark Houston knows addiction. He has traveled down that dark path, found his way back on the road to recovery and continues each and every day to maintain his recovery. So when you seek his assistance you'll know that he has the understanding, the knowledge and the experience to provide you the help you need.

The Addict In You -- How Addiction Develops

The truth is, anyone can become an addict but there are some who are more likely to become addicts than others. To get to the root causes of the addiction one has to look at the contributing factors in an individual's life.

Home: Living a life with addict in the family can influence your life whether you want to admit it or not. 
Environment:  Maybe your social setting has you spending time with a group of abusers or addicts or maybe your environment leaves you bored and stressed. Either way it can become a  factor in your addiction.
Personal Image: Low self-esteem and self image feeds the need for a coping mechanism like alcohol or drugs.

The Signs On The Road To Addiction

It's not something that happens overnight. Addiction is a process that slowly gets to the point when you have given up your mind and body to drugs or alcohol. But how do you know you are becoming an addict or that a friend or loved one is heading down that path? Ask the following questions about the drugs or alcohol being consumed.

• How important is it in your life?
• How much of the day do you spend thinking about it or doing it?
• Do you find comfort in it to change the way you're feeling?
• Are you secretive about your consumption?
• Does quitting or even the thought of quitting frighten you or cause you discomfort?
• If someone points out your  "problem" do you get defensive or angry?

An answer of yes, very or alot to any of those questions creates a new question. Do you control your habit or does your habit control you? You might have developed a habit that you can't break. Mark Houston knows all to well about who is in control when you're an addict. The key thing to remember is that there is help. There are methods and tools that can be used to help you recover and the dedicated and experienced team at Mark Houston Recovery can help you find your way back to a drug-free life.