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Do you know anything about this topic? Share your expertise with our thousands of visitors each day by submitting your quality, informative 'Substance Abuse Addictions' article, and if you become a member we will pay you for your unique and original work (note that all submissions are reviewed by our editors). Your Substance Abuse Addictions Guide is Michael Russell. Recent articles submitted to your independent guide to Substance Abuse Addictions 1. Equine Therapy - A Powerful Psychotherapy - By: M.l.mann This group resorts to alcohol or drugs to buffer the emotional roller coaster they are riding. Sure, many of us take a drink now and then to unwind, but for some it becomes an addiction. Nobody wants to become an addict; it is not a conscious choice we make. Addiction creeps up on you and before you... Featured ArticlePathological Eating Disorders And Poly-behavioral Addiction Proposing a New Diagnosis and Theory for Patients with Multiple AddictionsBy James Slobodzien, Psy.D., CSACWhen considering that pathological eating disorders and their related diseases now afflict more people globally than malnutrition, some experts in the medical field are presently purporting that the worlds number one health problem is no longer heart disease or cancer, but obesity. According to the World Health Organization (June, 2005), obesity has reached epidemic pr ...
Read full story 2. Substance Abuse Treatment - By: Michael Russell Substance Abuse Treatment If you or someone you know has a drug or alcohol problem, then possibly substance abuse treatment should be considered. Many peoples lives have become totally unmanageable due to addictions to drugs and alcohol. The phrase sick and tired of being sick and tired i... 3. Substance Abuse Treatment - By: Michael Russell Substance abuse treatment takes many different forms today. Having worked in the substance abuse treatment field for about two years, the one thing I learned more than anything else was that there are as many different kinds of addiction as there are addicts. Each and every substance abuser is dif... 4. Addictions - Behavioral Factors - By: Michael Russell Traditionally the term 'addiction' has been used to indicate repeated and continuous use of a substance leading to physiological dependence, regardless of the social, financial and health costs; the definition of addicts was earlier restricted to people who were helplessly dependent on substances su... 5. Alcoholism: Impact On The Alcoholic And The Family - By: Michael Russell There are addicts of all sorts all over. Now with the neoclassical definition that many are proposing it would seem that every single individual is an addict of some kind and it is only the level of addiction that varies. Addiction is a persistent on-going condition where the individual or animal wo... 6. Overview Of Drug And Alcohol Addictions - By: Michael Russell What exactly is addiction? Addiction is defined as a physiological dependence on something and its effects are both psychological and physical. An addicted person truly needs to constantly feed their addiction. Most people who are addicted to something don't realize they have a problem.&... 7. Drug Treatment - By: Michael Russell Drug addictions and alcoholism afflict millions of people around the world, costing hundreds of thousands of lives annually in the United States alone. While its the abuse of controlled substances like cocaine, heroine, prescription sedatives and painkillers, marijuana, and amphetamines that gets t... 8. Addiction Or Habit: Where To Draw The Line. - By: Michael Russell The distinction between what could be referred to as an addiction and what is merely a habit often eludes people. What is most times seen as addiction, in some people might be just a habit that they have refused to correct. When put in the right perspective, addiction is a dependence on any or... 9. Addictive Behaviour And Addictions - By: Michael Russell Addiction is the dependence on a particular substance, to the extent that fulfilling that dependence becomes a dominant preoccupation in a person's life. Addictions may be physical, in that the withdrawal of the substance produces symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting, or the dependence mig... 10. Alcoholism: How Do You Know If It Affects You? - By: Michael Russell Alcoholism can be defined as the state where a person's alcohol (ab)use inhibits the alcoholic's social, personal or working life on a regular basis, although a British solicitor once defined it as: 'the state of a person's preoccupation with alcohol being such that he cannot go five days without dr... 11. How Deadly Is Crack Cocaine - By: Frank Thatcher The concerns of addiction of any kind are complex and extremely involved. Substance abuse and addiction should be of great concern among the citizens in our societies. Addiction robs our children of their childhoods and our adults of their successes and aspirations. Many different forms... 12. Addictions - Begin The Road To Recovery - By: Michael Russell The term, addiction, is used to describe the condition of being a slave to a habit. That habit may be in the form of a substance or it may be in the form of an activity. Whatever the case, an addiction can be debilitating and or life threatening. A common expression within rooms of... 13. Drug Rehab - By: Michael Russell Drug rehabs provide a critically important function for our society. As Americans, we live in a world that all but worships medication, and almost encourage the use of chemicals to solve everyday problems. Though I am not against the use of medication when appropriate, the work focused, high stres... 14. Family Systems Therapy - By: Peggy Davis The client’s family system, be it functional or dysfunctional, is an important component to address when treating someone in recovery. Without information on the family history and dynamics in which an individual is a part, treatment is incomplete. While family work clinician’s focus is on the famil... 15. Drug Abuse – A Threat To Modern Society - By: Michael Russell The world is awash with drugs. Most of them are highly dangerous and at the same time can cause a feeling of happiness and joy. Millions on earth use and abuse them, in spite of the fact that most users are aware of the potential risk of taking them. And they are aware of the morta... 16. Drug Treatment Centers: What They Really Do. - By: Michael Russell Alcoholism or alcohol addiction, like every form of addiction holds serious implications, not only for the person involved but also for the immediate family and society at large. One of the most serious problems with alcohol addiction is the denial that comes with it. Most alcohol addict... Please feel free to submit your quality, informative article for our readers. |
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