Surgery is forever so once your healthy tissue is cut and sutured, you never really look like you again. Common sense dictates that fooling with your God-given good looks may result in disastrous cons...

If you are looking for information on alternative therapy, there is plenty of information on the internet.

As adults transition into young old age, they are again at an increased risk for alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Unfortunately, the effects of alcohol on older adults are magnified, and the risks to hea...

Choosing to stay on in rehab even after graduation can help with sobriety in three important ways, and when employed as in a rehab as a recovering addict and advisor, you maintain access to the therap...

No matter who you are or how seriously you take your personal battle towards sobriety, the statistics say that you are likely to slip at least once after drug r alcohol rehab. Here are 5 things you ne...

A concurrent addiction to pills and alcohol plagues increasing numbers of Americans, and with the ever increasing ease of access to prescription pharmaceuticals, the problem is likely to get worse. Th...

Some people can use a month of drug rehab and stay sober for life, most of us can't. Here are 5 things you can do to improve your odds of sobriety after the end of drug or alcohol rehab.

We don’t often think of sleep as a risk factor to relapse and abuse, but insomnia during long term withdrawal is a significant predictor of further abuse. This is very problematic as one of the sympto...

You can never fight the battles of alcoholism recovery for someone you love, but that doesn’t mean that family can't help a lot on the road to sobriety. Although the recovering alcoholic must walk the...

Drug or alcohol rehab is unfortunately no guarantee of long term sobriety, and a great many people fail to see sobriety through the end of the first very risky year after rehab. Here are three things ...

Nothing works better than a well planned and careful family intervention to convince of a need for drug or alcohol treatment. But there are times when the use behaviors become so extreme that they pre...

For people who are abusing drugs or alcohol, but whose use has not yet progressed to the level of dependency or addiction, sometimes a brief and casual intervention can influence a substantial change ...

All larger workplaces suffer from the substance abuse of employees. Employee use and abuse results in a loss in productivity, in greater injuries on the job and longer periods of medical leave, but em...

Although touted as a less addictive and safer alternative to opiate type pain pills, Ultram is addictive, and the detox off of Ultram long and arduous. Once addicted you have three alternatives when a...

A family intervention will convince a vast majority of a need for treatment, if it is planned and run well. It’s important to spend some time ensuring that the intervention will proceed in a non confr...

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