Tag Archives: substance abuse
Parents Have the Most Influence When Preventing Substance Abuse
For those who are parents to kids entering into the teen years, you know how stressful peer pressure can be. Many adolescents end up getting advice from their peers – and some of it may not be the greatest advice. In order to keep your children from venturing down a path of potential substance abuse […]
Best Recent Recovery Blogs to Read
Deciding to go to a rehabilitation center to treat a drug or alcohol addiction may seem like the hard part, but sometimes learning to relive life without the crutch can prove even more arduous. Coupled with consistently trying to maintain sobriety throughout both the mundane daily tasks of life and the occasional emotional highs and […]
Recent Correlations between Addiction and Other Diagnoses
According to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, “when other factors are held constant, mental illness does increase use of addictive goods-relative to use by the overall population-by 20 percent for alcohol, 27 percent for cocaine, and 86 percent for cigarettes.” The correlation between addictions and other mental illness diagnoses has […]
Battle of the Sexes: Effects of Alcohol Abuse
Have you ever noticed how a man and a woman can drink the exact same amount of alcohol, but yet the woman always seems drunker, faster? Or have you ever wondered why the bar has infinitely more men seated and drinking, than women? Recent research provides all these answers and more. Some quick facts: alcoholism […]
How Group Therapy Can Help You in Recovery
In a group therapy session, you are able to forget about your own problems for a moment and listen to somebody else who is going through the same thing that you are, if not worst. You do not feel alone and you are able to recognize that addiction is a world-wide disease that comes in […]