The success rates of addictions treatment depends many factors, but the old myth that the addict or alcoholic has to enter rehab highly motivated for it to work has been proven to be untrue. Most people addicted to alcohol or other drugs enter rehab with little desire to get treated and live without their addiction, and this […]
Lear more01/02/2010 Denial is a feature of any addictive illness, is much misunderstood and yet a commonly used term. Denial is essentially an unconscious defence mechanism that protects us from a reality that’s too painful to acknowledge. If an addicted person fully conceded to their loved ones the extent of the problem they’d be expected to […]
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