Four Steps That Can Help You Succeed When Seeking Addiction Help
Most individuals are exposed to a wide variety of factors, which can significantly impact their life in a negative manner. Addiction to drugs or alcohol can often provide an individual with no benefits, as it slowly destroys their health, their life, and their loved ones. When you find yourself looking to move beyond the limitations […]
Alcohol Addiction Treatment: Better Than Jail
It is very unfortunate to know that there are several people who look down on alcohol and drug addicts. These people usually think that these addicts are hopeless cases and are scumbags of the universe. For this, they immediately think that the best way to get rid of such people is to put them in […]
Steps To Assist You In Seeking Addiction Help
When an individual is addicted to any substance, whether it be alcohol or drugs, there are a tremendous number of negative side effects that can impact their health, as well as impact their relationships. While many individuals simply accept this addiction and fall into a life of despair, other individuals begin to recognise these negative […]
7 Reasons for a Sober Intervention
The usual rhetoric that people who have a loved one who is currently in the grips of their addiction, be that alcohol, narcotics, eating disorders, gambling, or any other behavioural or process compulsion, is to wait until they are ready to have help and any interfering with just prolong their determination to engage with their […]
Sober Interventions use a Tough Love model, which is explained here
Using Tough Love Tactics to Help Treat Addicts / Alcoholics In a world moving closer to nurture and farther away from nature, concepts like unconditional love are being shelved and replaced with things like tough love, with many so-called experts proclaiming loudly that the former just doesn’t work. This is because relapse rates are astronomically […]
The 7 Things You Need To Know About Rehab
1. Rehab is not a punishment, and Rehab is not a Luxury Resort Believe it or not, rehab is not a punishment because of your addiction. It’s actually a privilege and a real opportunity for you to heal. Rehab is a second chance for you in life – like starting a new chapter in the […]
Tough Love Tactics for Addicts
Using “Tough Love” tactics to help treat Addiction In a world moving closer to nurture and farther away from nature, concepts like unconditional love are being shelved and replaced with things like “tough love”, with most addiction therapists, counsellors and practitioners proclaiming expressing that the former “unconditional love” model just doesn’t work. This is because […]
People with drug problems need health care, not prison
18th July 2011 “People with drug problems need health care, not prison.” Sir Richard Branson 17th June 2011 So last week the news broke that a large number of high profile people were backing a new initiative calling for a different approach to the war on drugs, suggesting it to be a health problem and […]
War on Drugs – Afghanistan considered
I’ve been thinking about the War on Drugs in Afghanistan after watching a Channel 4 Documentary http://www.channel4.com/programmes/our-drugs-war/episode-guide/series-1/episode-3 presented very fairly by Angus Macqueen. It was the final thoughts shared by an Afghanistan civilian that has left an uncomfortable thought swirling around my head. He shared (I’m paraphrasing here) that it was the responsibility of […]
Changing the Drug Laws
Yesterday, the news across the UK was partly taken up with a top Doctor – Sir Ian Gilmore, from the Royal College of Physicians calling for a drug law review and towards decriminalising controlled substances, thus drastically reducing crime (obviously) and improving health (possibly). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10990921 I’m not too sure where I stand on the […]
