How Can Uber Improve Addiction Recovery Access?
People suffering from addiction come up with a number of reasons why they refuse to go into treatment like thinking there is no hope for them or that drugs are the only way they can feel better. Another excuse is not having the transportation to get to treatment as not everyone has a car. Hospitals are trying their hardest to [...]
How to Talk About Alcoholism To Your Kids
Alcoholism may be a scary thing to talk about to your children because you are afraid if you give them information about why people drink, they will want to do it themselves. The truth is that you are not protecting your children by not talking about it and you do not want to miss an opportunity when your children show [...]
What Can Be Done to Prevent Parents from Fueling Their Addiction with Their Child’s Pain Medication?
When you have an addiction, you will do whatever it takes to get your hands on abusive substances. This can even mean stealing from your own children whether it is their money or even their own medication. It is important that doctors find out the child’s family history of addiction before prescribing them pain medication to ensure that only them [...]
Legal Ways Teens Get High
Kids are still trying to find ways to get high without being caught with hard street drugs. They are looking at supplies they can find at home or grocery stores. It is important for kids to learn that while these substances may be easy to acquire, they are still no safer than illegal drugs. At homes, parents may tend to [...]
What are the Benefits of Avoiding Alcohol?
It can be hard to avoid alcohol when your friends want to get a drink with you or you are constantly passing bars with people having fun while drinking. If you have never touched alcohol before, you will have a better chance of living a long, healthy life. If you learn about the true negative effects alcohol can have on [...]
Mixing Alcohol and Codeine
Codeine is a mild narcotic painkiller and cough suppressant. It is now a prescription only drug that treats moderate or severe pain. Recreational use of codeine symptoms include euphoria, memory loss, vomiting, and loss of coordination and motor skills. While combining codeine with alcohol may give you more of an instant high than taking each drug separately, it can also [...]
How is Anger Linked with Addiction?
Anger comes in various degrees. Healthy people can get angry once in a while and move on with their day. Other people get easily upset by disturbances such as a verbal threat from someone or getting cut off on the road. If you do not learn how to control your anger, it is a possibility this can enable drug addiction. [...]
The Importance of Never Giving Up on Someone With Addiction
It can be very frustrating and devastating to see someone you love struggling with addiction. You may feel like they are a lost cause and want to run away from helping them. It is important to never give up on the ones you lost as everyone has the potential to get better. You may remember all of the times that [...]
History of Amphetamines
Amphetamines are nervous system stimulants to treat ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity. Amphetamines used to be used to treat a variety of medical treatments until the dangers and abuse of the medication were too great to ignore. It is important to learn the history of amphetamines so that you are aware of people’s perceptions of the drug when it was first [...]
Do I Have An Addictive Personality?
There are some people that grow up with the mind of an addict with makes them easily exposed to addiction. They already had character traits in them that can help produce an addiction when introduced to a harmful substance. It is important to remember that despite your personality, addiction is not a permanent state of being and you can always [...]