Unfortunately, we live in a society that is plagued with alcohol and drug addiction. While this is true, it is very comforting to know that first, you are never alone and that help is available to turn your life around. There are often many more components to addiction than simply the inability to say [...]
Drug addiction has been around forever and there have been many drugs that have surfaced spawning addiction along the way but none have been as deadly, potent, widespread, and easily accessible as that of prescription drug abuse. Prescription drug abuse has literally become an epidemic especially among young adults and teens. Prescription pain pills, for [...]
A new study, soon to be published in the June issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, suggests that there is a long-reaching correlation between problems of irregular sleep in childhood and alcoholism and drug abuse in adulthood. Maria Wong, associate professor in the department of psychology at Idaho State University, conducted the survey. Dr. [...]
Alcoholics Anonymous is a twelve-step program designed as a means of support for anyone who suspects or who has decided that they have a problem with alcohol. Alcoholics Anonymous is not a privately-funded or publicly-funded organization; it exists and runs solely using the voluntary donations of its members. There are no dues or fees required [...]
“Rehab” is the colloquial term for, and now the most widely-used form of, the word “rehabilitation.” Rehab is a catch-all term that is most often meant to describe the many different intensive treatment programs which are available to serve the many different forms of addiction. The most common rehab treatments address those matters which relate [...]
As technology improves and expands, and new media changes the ways that information is transmitted, the advertising industry has searched for ways to adapt. One of the most lucrative areas of the advertising industry has to do with the marketing and promotion of alcohol and alcohol-related products. As Americans spend less time glued to their [...]
