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Cape Town’s nickname in South Africa is the “mother city” because it was the first European colony in this area.  It was originally founded by the Dutch as a harbor to spend the winter and resupply ships. People from the business capital of South Africa, Johannesburg (Egoli – the City Of Gold) jokingly refer to…

Cape Town offers a rich cultural experience to people looking to enjoy music, theatre, art, and architecture.  Live music of almost every genre plays just about every night at various venues (upmarket  and otherwise) including original African Jazz and authentic Irish music as well as traditional South African music. Street performers will commonly be found…

The destructive actions of drug addicts can devastate their families leaving relatives feeling angry, bewildered, hurt and guilty. Families can’t understand that their love isn’t enough to stop a relative using when they suffer from the disease of addiction, and they can’t fathom the deceit and manipulation that they suffer from the hands of a…

Society can be judgemental towards individuals who are addicted to alcohol. It is seen by many as a self-inflicted condition that simply persists because of a lack of willpower on behalf of the person seeking alcohol recovery. Nobody’s been able to prove exactly what causes alcoholism and different professionals have different views. What most addictions…

Do you: Feel like you need to drink alcohol in any situation? Drink alcohol every day? Have a relationship with alcohol that you regard more important than everyone & everything in your life? If this is you, then you might need alcohol rehab. Also known as alcoholism, alcohol addiction is an incurable brain disease that…

How to get sober and stay that way! It seems obvious to all but the person abusing alcohol. If you are a problem drinker then just stop! The difficulty is that once a person is dependent on alcohol it’s just not that easy. Once you’re actually addicted to alcohol it can be life threatening to…

Blotter is a sheet of paper where the LSD drug (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) has been filtered into.

Addiction, whether to alcohol or any other drug, is characterised by a mental obsession and a physical compulsion are by nature very destructive. All addictions, whether it’s gambling, drink or drugs, eating disorders or even sex and love, it involves persistent use in spite of the negative consequences to all spheres of the person’s life –…

Inpatient treatment refers to the residential stay at a rehabilitation center for those addicted to alcohol and other narcotic substances.

Pharmacokinetics refers to the study of the processes and reactions of drugs in the body.