It has mistakenly believed that a drug addict needs to desire recovery in order to be treated for drug addiction; however recent findings suggest that pressure from friends, family, employers or the legal system on the addict to obtain treatment, improves their treatment outcomes. This is a critical point as most family members wait around […]
Lear moreGetting into addiction treatment is not as bad as it what it may seem. Let’s use an example. You’ve just been in a car accident and you’ve broken a leg. I’m pretty sure that the only place where you’d like to be now is inside a hospital, where doctors can give you medical care to […]
Lear more12/09/2013 It’s so easy to say things like “it will never happen to me”. You might have thought that your loved one could never become an addict or alcoholic, yet here you are reading this. Addiction is a chronic, incurable brain disease that will get worse the longer it’s left untreated. It’s like a balloon […]
Lear more26/09/2013 As a parent, you want what’s best for your child. The best education, the best lifestyle, the best household, anything & everything that will help them make success out of their lives. You hope & pray that the way you raised them is good enough, but realistically, you can only control so much. What […]
Lear moreIf you are wondering if you could be addicted to drugs, here’s a simple way to check. All you have to do is to grab a piece of paper and a pen and calculate your score as you go along. The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) was developed in […]
Lear more11/03/2011 Given the large number of rehabilitation clinics, retreats and centres you might find yourself wondering what the most appropriate drug addiction treatment options are? Each rehab centre seems to make similar claims about having the most effective treatment or highest success rate and because drug addiction is a progressive illness (it gets worse over […]
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