Why Doing It Alone Fails Most People People love telling addicts to “just stop.” It sounds clean. It sounds empowering. It sounds like common sense. And it’s one of the biggest reasons people keep using for longer than they need to. If quitting drugs was just a matter of making a decision, addiction wouldn’t exist. […]
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Stay Sober After an Alcohol Detox Centre by Working a 12 Step Program
Alcohol detox removes alcohol from the bloodstream but it does not remove addiction from a person’s life. It stabilises the body and prevents seizures and delirium and other acute dangers that come with withdrawal but it has no power to rebuild damaged thinking or shift deeply entrenched behaviour. The problem is that detox has been […]
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Importance of a Clinical Alcohol Detoxification.
The Most Popular Drug in South Africa Is Still Treated Like a Joke Alcohol is the one drug that never has to explain itself. It is welcomed into homes, celebrations, workplaces, braais, and funerals. It is sold on every corner, advertised with smiling faces, and defended whenever anyone raises concerns. Yet it destroys more relationships, […]
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Alcoholism Centre – Information about the disease of alcoholism
Alcoholism Treatment Has Evolved Modern alcoholism treatment is far more sophisticated than anything available a few decades ago yet the way people think about alcoholism remains stuck in the past. Families still make decisions based on outdated ideas about willpower, morality and shame while science has moved on. We know more about brain chemistry, trauma, […]
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Alcohol Detox Center
It Gives Your Brain a Chance to Stabilise Families often treat alcohol detox like a quick medical pit stop. Get the person through the shakes, get them sleeping again, get them eating, get the colour back in their face, then send them home and hope the nightmare is over. That mindset is understandable, because everyone […]
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