Alcohol addiction is a chronic and progressive condition that may attack any age, race, sex or orientation without prejudice. Alcohol addiction is all-encompassing, ruining the life of the sufferer and affects the lives of those around him or her. While alcohol addiction does not currently have a known cure, treatment can help the individual learn how to control their urges so they can live a productive life of sobriety. The key to sobriety is...more
The best means to find proper cure for the addiction patients is the addiction treatment centers. The choice of the treatment centers is the most crucial factor for the proper treatment of the addiction patients. This is the most essential thing to consider for the reason that if there is any mistake in the choice of the rehab center the results can be devastating. In fact there are also other things to be paid proper attention to. The point is...more
Heroin is an extremely addictive substance that causes noticeable changes within seconds of being used. Almost immediately the user begins to feel a sudden rush of intense euphoria, and then an instant sensation of heaviness followed by a warm calming feeling that takes over the entire body. Once this "rush" sensation has passed, a feeling of drowsiness overcomes the user's body. As the user continues to fluctuate between a state of drowsiness and a wakening, just staying awake becomes increasingly difficult. This phase of the high is referred to as "nodding" or "the nod". During "the nod" phase the heroin user will continue to enter deep trances of sleep and then awakening suddenly.One of the most deadly effects of heroin use is that it causes the user to experience impaired breathing. Sometimes this impaired breathing causes the user to stop breathing all together, eventually slowing the heart rate to the point of cardiac arrest; this is known as heroin overdose. Unfortunately, overdose is inevitable for heroin addicts who fail to seek professional heroin addiction treatment. The recovery rate of heroin addiction is less than 3%; however when Ibogaine and/or Ibogaine treatment is...more
The best means to find the proper cure for the addiction patients is the addiction treatment centers. In fact the point is that the addiction treatment centers offer the best treatment for the addiction patients but in the same way it is also important to note that not all addiction treatment centers offers the proper treatment of all addiction...more
Heroin is an illegal drug that is derived from morphine. Heroin affects the brain's pleasure and craving pathways causing intense feelings of euphoria. Heroin also has an incredible ability to eliminate the body's ability to feel pain. As this drug feels so good to the user, it is also highly addictive. Among the people who use heroin, it is...more
Because of the huge influx of doctors and the rising pace at which these doctors are prescribing pain killing medications; by the way all of which are high potency drugs, it has become all the more easy for patients to become addicted to such pain killing drugs like Oxycontin. Oxycontin is exceptionally effective in relieving chronic pain symptoms of the most severe type. Powerful drugs like Oxycontin are most commonly used to treat terminal diseases and serious injuries.Oxycontin and Oxycontin related drugs are opiates that target the brain's opioid receptors and depress the central nervous system. Opiates are organic drugs derived from opium that is harvested from the poppy plant.Oxycontin and other prescription pain medications are extremely addictive. Oxycontin patients will usually always become physically dependant on this these drugs, partially as a result of carelessness and over-prescribing doctors. Almost all doctors will fail to seek alternative avenues before prescribing these powerful medications to their patients. The lack of care in handing out these medications will often result in patients having to seek professional drug addiction treatment, or more specifically...more
Breaking the Life Cycle of Addiction is PossibleAddiction has a very distinct life cycle. At the root of addiction, are addicts experiencing emotional or physical pain. Maybe some addicts have had a death in the family, a rejection by a lover, or a...more
Sugar addictions are real. We are born liking sugar more than breast milk from our mothers. And studies have shown that high levels of sugar change quantities of dopamine in your brain. Not good for reducing flabby arms.Even worse, sugars elevates...more
All the above points form important ingredients of most rehab programs and if the patient is co-operative, it does not take long for him to quit his addiction and attain the road to sobriety. The attitude of the patient is very important and most...more
Sex addiction jokes are everywhere -- particularly with Tiger Woods going off to rehab to cure himself of having affairs. Was that great PR to get public sympathy or can sex really be an addiction? Ask any sex addict and they'll tell you it's for...more
Alcohol has a corrosive action on liver, and may also lead to complications of brain, heart, stomach, pancreas and other important organs of the body. A person becomes alcoholic when excessive intake of alcohol throws certain chemicals in the brain...more