Often and quite rightly so the detox part of treatment for someone addicted to a substance is the most worrying and difficult to successfully overcome. Many people worldwide remain trapped in addiction for years while avoiding the withdrawal effects during detox. Over the past 20 […]
Relationships in Early Recovery
Relationships in addiction become toxic and unproductive. Trust is gone, lying, stealing and cheating feature in the dynamics of the relationship and it leaves both or all parties angry and confused. From the loved ones perspective, the person using is slowly killing him/herself and regardless […]
The Opposite Of Addiction Is Not Sobriety
Johann Hari, author of the New York Times best-selling book "Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs," has been exploring the true cause of addiction, something he believes is largely misunderstood. In a Ted Talk filmed last month, Hari […]
This Is Your Brain On Neuroscience
By Zachary Siegel 07/05/15 Addiction science and neuroscience will make your head spin. It's not brain surgery Shutterstock It’s the age of what people are calling the “neuro-disciplines.” It all began with a now well-known branch of medicine called neurology, the study of the nervous […]
Cross Addiction
If you understand the fundamentals of addiction, you’ll understand that it was never about the drugs or alcohol or other self-destructive behaviours. What characterizes addiction is the obsessive and compulsive nature of the behaviour and also what happens when we do act out on that […]
How Do Addicts Make Decisions
Learning about the economics of decision-making could mean the difference between relapse and long-term sobriety. Most, if not all, addicts and alcoholics struggle with quitting and staying sober. And many have an equally hard time understanding why. What if would-be recovering addicts and alcoholics knew […]
Living in Recovery
It took me close on ten years to figure out the difference between the two. One is a fight, the other is freedom. I’ve often heard people saying that it’s a constant fight to stay clean. In my opinion that is abstinence, if you are […]
Pushing Through
It’s not always rainbows and sunshine in early recovery. Gone is the myth, just because I've stopped using everything will be okay now. On the contrary, because you've stopped using or acting out on your addiction you will start to see the REAL wreckage of your past. All those feelings that […]
New Relationships
Through our using we came to believe falsely that we were self-sufficient; that we didn’t need anyone else, we couldn’t stand anyone else as long as we had our drugs. Through this thinking, our interpersonal skills and abilities to communicate with others were put on […]
Social Media Linked to Substance Abuse
Plenty of research has demonstrated that the addictive quality of social media is very real. And according to a new study, heavy social media use may also contribute to a different type of addiction. Psychologists at the University of Albany found that not only is […]
