The Real Reasons Addiction Treatment Centers are Vital for Recovery
Addiction treatment centers are vital for recovery. When dealing with an addiction, it may seem like there is nowhere to turn for constructive help that actually works. It may also seem like controlling addiction More...
How to Help a Loved One Overcome a Drug Addiction
Helping a loved one to overcome a drug addiction can be a very tough and emotional time. Drug addictions can happen to anybody, just as anybody can recover from substance abuse and addiction problems with the right More...
Treating the Person as a Whole
Any time a person seeks treatment for drug and alcohol addiction, it is important to remember that there is more to the situation than the physical effects. The person’s mental state will also play a role More...
‘American Idol’ star Jason Castro speaks out against pornography in ‘I Am Second’ video, crediting Jesus Christ for breaking addiction
While fans watched American Idol launch the music career of Jason Castro, his pornography addiction nearly cost him his marriage. In a new “I Am Second” video, Castro details the struggle, backsliding More...
The Growing Concern Of Problem Gambling In America
Gambling could easily be considered one of the USA’s favourite, most prominent entertainment activities. Despite having so many heavy restrictions set on it, the availability and participation in gambling has More...
When a parent’s addiction becomes a child’s depression
A parent struggling with addiction may assume that their addiction does not affect anyone else. In reality, their addiction can affect their children, causing them to develop depression and other mental health disorders More...
Eyes on Drug Rehabilitation: An Interview with Per Wickstrom
1) We often hear people refer to addicts as ‘recovering addicts’ even though they have been clean of substance abuse for many years. Why is this? Why aren’t they considered to be ‘recovered?’ Since the More...
Chris Matthews on Ted Cruz: he’s ‘menacing’ and ‘It scares me’
MSNBC host Chris Matthews unloaded on Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz during a segment Wednesday on “Morning Joe,” arguing that, if the Texas senator were to be elected to the presidency, “a More...
High Society: America’s Drug Abuse Problem
Imagine a disease that is so harmful, it’s killing 44 Americans a day; yet most of the people suffering from this disease aren’t receiving treatment. You’re likely thinking it’s heart disease or cancer, More...
Foster Care System Sees Influx Due To Rising Heroin Addiction
An alarming rate of heroin use has swept across the United States and the consequences are devastating. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heroin addiction has almost tripled among young More...
Do You Need An Emotional Detox?
We communicate by Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, and email across the world, yet cannot communicate with ourselves. We can access understanding and knowledge at the push of a few buttons, and have not More...
Addiction Prevention: Ways to Avoid Heartbreak and Find Hope
There are a number of people who theorize that some of us are basically predisposed with a personality fault that makes us more vulnerable to addiction and that there is nothing that can be done about it. As the More...
Substance Abuse and Addiction: Global Issues
It’s no secret that the United States is in the midst of a drug epidemic. From the rising popularity of prescription medications to an increased use of drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, rates More...
Korea: Man kills son so he can go to internet cafe to play games
In a disturbing story from Taegu, South Korea, a 22-year-old man has confessed to suffocating his 28-month-old son and putting him in a garbage bag because the child wouldn’t sleep and kept him from going More...
Ashley Harper, Pittsburgh woman, arrested after smuggling heroin into a court room, hid from police on the roof
A Pittsburgh woman was arrest Friday after police found her hiding on a roof. Ashley Harper was found with 30 bags of stamped heroin entering family court for a drug screen, police say. Ashley Nicole Harper Court More...
