Why Every Conversation About Addiction Turns Into “Have You Tried AA” When someone in South Africa admits they have a drinking problem, or when a family whispers about a son using heroin or a daughter using meth, the automatic advice that follows is predictable, take them to AA or NA. No questions about mental health, […]
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How Do I Stop Using Drugs?
The Most Dangerous Lie Families Believe One of the most persistent myths in addiction is the idea that the addict must “want help” before anything meaningful can change. Families cling to this belief because it appears respectful, reasonable, and even compassionate. It sounds fair to say, “They must be ready,” or “They need to want […]
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Top Ten Myths about Drug Addiction Treatment
Addiction Myths Are Not Harmless Misunderstandings The conversation around addiction is flooded with beliefs that sound reasonable on the surface but fall apart the moment they are tested against reality. These myths are dangerous because they are not simply incorrect ideas. They function as emotional armour for the person with the addiction and they provide […]
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When the Body Wants to Stop but the Brain Can’t Let Go
No one plans to end up addicted. It doesn’t start with a needle or a line, it starts with a need. Relief, escape, control, numbness, whatever you want to call it, the first hit, the first pill, the first high feels like freedom. And for a while, it is. Then one day, the freedom turns […]
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Drug Addiction Group Therapy
There are many competing approaches to alcohol and drug addiction recovery but none of them can claim to be the single “best” approach for treatment. This is because the people in rehab programs are different and so the program will work differently for them. Despite individual differences drug addiction group therapy is widely regarded as […]
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Alcohol Addiction, Help Is Needed
The Real Problem With Alcohol Addiction Most families looking for alcohol addiction help do not start from a place of clarity. They start from fear and confusion and exhaustion. They search the internet in the late hours hoping to find something that will make sense of what has been happening in their home. They read […]
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The Evolution Of Alcohol Rehabilitation Facilities
The willpower myth that still runs too many South African homes For years the public story about alcoholism was simple, remove the drink, sweat it out in detox, then choose to behave like a normal person. If you could do that, you were “strong”, if you could not, you were “weak”, and families often treated […]
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12-Step Meetings
These meetings are held as part of the many 12 Step recovery programmes in existence around the world. There are many different fellowship meetings of 12 Step programmes, such as NA (Narcotics Anonymous), AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), GA (Gamblers Anonymous), OA (Overeaters Anonymous) and SLA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous). In a typical meeting, there will […]
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The Power of Alcohol Addiction Counselling for Lasting Recovery
Alcohol Counselling Is a Lifeline Alcohol addiction counselling is one of the most misunderstood forms of healthcare in South Africa. People still treat alcoholism like a moral weakness or a personal failure rather than a progressive, neurological disease that quietly reorganises a person’s emotional world until nothing functions properly. Because alcohol is socially normalised, many […]
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