Diagnosing Addiction
According to a survey by the Center on Addiction and Drug Abuse (CASA), when it comes to diagnosing addiction a staggering nine out of ten physicians fail to correctly diagnose alcohol or drug abuse even when patients exhibit classic symptoms. Physicians cited numerous reasons for their inability in diagnosing addiction, including lack of adequate [...]

Addiction Rehabilitation
Addiction not only affects the individual, it affects everyone around him or her. Family members, friends, employers all suffer the effects of an individual’s addiction.
Addiction is a disease that plagues mind, body and spirit. It has been defined as a disease in that it is chronic, progressive and fatal if left untreated, but [...]

Addiction Treatment
When it’s time to get addiction treatment, where do you go for help? How do you know which addiction treatment center is right for you?
It’s scary enough to admit you have a problem that you can no longer control, but finding the right place for you can feel overwhelming. Just the idea of sorting [...]

Alcohol Abuse
People who turn to alcohol to deal with life situations, events or problems demonstrate the patterns inherent in alcohol abuse. When alcohol becomes the dominant coping mechanism for dealing with life and life situations, this is called alcohol abuse. Unless someone learns the tools necessary to start dealing with life on life’s terms, alcohol [...]

Addiction
Whether you struggle with alcoholism or drug addiction, you are fighting a disease that occurs on a three-part level. Addiction is an obsession of the mind, an allergy of the body and a spiritual malady. Addiction has to the power to rob you of relationships, family, career, health and sanity. Most people have to experience [...]

12 Step Program
Do you struggle with addiction? While there are many programs available to help overcome addiction, the most successful method has proven to be the 12 step program. There is a lot of misunderstanding surrounding the 12 step program, most often associated with the founding principles of Alcoholics Anonymous. Over the years, the 12 [...]

Every addiction is different and depends upon a variety of factors, including the individual, environment, expectation, chemical make up, type of drug, availability, and development of cross addiction. The circumstance of drug withdrawal follows the same pattern.
The severity of symptoms, level of craving, the time it takes to recover or for the drug to completely [...]