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 […]
Staying sober – with a little help from my companion
Staying Sober with a little help from my companion – The Telegraph discussing Sober Companions with Ian Young of Sober Services.
10 tips for Quitting Drinking
10 tips for quitting drinking 1) Make changes Change the people, places and pastimes that you’re used to spending time with or at. This is easiest when you socialise with people who don’t drink at all (there are many that exist), or in coffee shops rather than pubs, or take up a sport or hobby that […]
Are you a problematic drinker or an alcoholic?
10 ways to tell if you have a problem developing you’re your alcohol consumption, or if you have already become a problematic drinker or alcoholic Answer these 10 questions honestly to determine whether you have an alcohol problem or if you are an alcoholic. 1) Do you drink to relieve stress? You have come to […]
Recovery Rocks – Ian Young
Recovery Rocks – Ian Young June 26, 2013 by Veronica Valli Ian Young’s default program is set on ‘jolly.’ He is relentlessly jolly. Which is a pretty good place for an ex-crack and heroin addict and alcoholic. it’s pretty bloody amazing when you consider he should be dead now and it is nothing short of […]
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 […]
The real message behind legalised shooting galleries
Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs In the Guardian last week and across the news recently was the story about how Brighton is to become the first British city to offer official “drug consumption rooms”. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/14/brighton-drug-consumption-rooms I’m not going to get too involved in the story as to whether it’s a good thing […]
