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Recovery: What are your Re-Covering?
- By Dean Sunseri
- Published 12/16/2009
- Addiction Recovery
- Unrated
What is recovery? Recovery is the process of re-covering all the things that are lost in active addiction. The tangible recovery is moving to a place of re-covering the finances, re-connecting and healing the damaged relationships and re-establishing a new professional reputation. The deeper re-covering is making choices that are in align with one’s values, thus restoring integrity.
What to Expect When Entering a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centre
- By Alter Sage
- Published 08/11/2009
- Addiction Counseling
- Unrated
Many people who find themselves in the grips of a serious dependency on alcohol or drugs enter a drug and alcohol treatment centre to be rehabilitated and treated for addiction without understanding the full measure of the delicate procedure in such a treatment centre.
Am I an Addict?
- By Alter Sage
- Published 06/19/2009
- Effects of Drug Addiction
- Unrated
Drug use is a very common reality in all cultures worldwide. Rave parties, dinner parties, birthdays, New Year, office parties: often we celebrate these occasions with social drug use and alcohol abuse.
Drug and Alcohol Detox and Addiction Counselling
- By Rosemary Grace Brooks
- Published 03/16/2009
- Addiction Counseling
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Narcotic drugs and alcohol are very physically addictive substances accounting for the rise in drug and alcohol addiction rates yearly.
Recent Articles
What is an Intervention?
- By Dean Sunseri
- Published 12/29/2009
- Drug Addiction Help
- Unrated
Intervention means to interfere in the affairs of another person in order to bring about a positive change. The common use today in the mental health field is to interfere in life of a person who is in a self-destructive cycle.
Life After an Alcohol and Drug Rehab
- By Alter Sage
- Published 12/8/2009
- Addiction Recovery
- Unrated
Admission to an alcohol and drug rehab is a difficult and painful process, and often a very confusing one, as it stirs both negative and positive emotions. The experience is usually accompanied by shame, guilt and fear, but also relief.
Group Activities at a Drug Rehab in South Africa
- By Alter Sage
- Published 12/8/2009
- Addiction Recovery
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Addicts attending a drug rehab in South Africa will often participate in group activities as well as individual therapy addiction counselling. Clients participating in drug rehabilitation are important to one another, as much can be learnt from the group interaction within a rehab.
Detoxification and Drug Treatment Facilities - What is Addiction and What Happens in Rehab?
- By Alter Sage
- Published 08/5/2009
- Drug Treatment Centers
- Unrated
Incidences of drug addiction are increasing as social drug use becomes more prevalent each year. Although drug addiction has been a major problem for hundreds of years, more is understood about the nature of addiction today.
What is Drug Addiction? The Signs, Symptoms and Treatment
- By Alter Sage
- Published 08/5/2009
- Effects of Drug Addiction
- Unrated
Drug addiction has been a problem for centuries. Opium, heroin and cocaine were predominantly used for medicinal purposes until the high addiction rates and resulting problems led to these substances becoming banned.