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5 Ways To Set Healthy Boundaries With People Who Have Addiction Issues

When dealing with individuals who have addiction issues, setting boundaries can be an important part of maintaining your own mental health and well-being. However, it can also be a difficult and emotionally charged process. Here are some tips on how to...

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3 Ways Interventions Get Off Track and How to Prevent Each One

Poor planning is one of the major ways an intervention can go off the rails. Prevent this by working out each major part of the intervention. This article takes a look at some common downfalls.

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Family Interventions Can Help Start the Treatment Process

Interventions can be emotionally charged. While many interventions can be done quickly and without complications, consulting a professional interventionist is always a good idea.

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My Child is a Drug Addict: What Can I Do?

If you have a son or daughter addicted to drugs or alcohol, you might feel helpless and exasperated with not even a glimmer of hope that anything can be done. As someone who was addicted to drugs or alcohol for nearly 20 years, and after having many near-death...

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When Saying Sorry Isn’t Enough: Make Amends

When one makes the pursuit of their next high their primary objective in life, it encompasses them. It becomes the driving motive behind every action they make. The singular goal of getting high leaves the rest of your life in a state of decay.

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Withdrawing On Your Own – Be Cautious

Addiction is such a vicious, debilitating crisis that professional help is required to assist addicts in breaking free from their dependencies. To attempt recovery from drugs without professional help is dangerous and often doomed to fail.

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Help For Families: What to Do When the Head of the Household Is Addicted

While addiction doesn’t mix well with anyone, addiction and parents can be particularly distressing to deal with, especially when the addicted parent is the primary income provider. Fortunately, there are things that family members can do when the head...

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The Irony of Medication-Assisted Treatment

Treating addiction to one drug by giving a person a second drug is not a new concept. But the question remains, do substitute drugs just give a person a new addiction?

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Is Someone You Love Managing Their Emotions with Drugs?

Emotions contribute part of the richness of life in this world. Yet many people will resort to drugs to alter or manage the unpleasant emotions rather than develop skills to deal with them.

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Life Skills: Easing a Person’s Return to a Sober Life

Lack of skills to deal with life situations often leads a person to alcohol or drug use. A return to a productive and sober life requires building those life skills that were missing before.

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Three Ways to Save an Addicted Person’s Life

Three important things you can do to save a person from fatal drug overdose and get them on the path to recovery.

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Is Drugging a Person Who has a Drug Problem the Right Solution?

Many have tried to find the magic pill or shot to cure someone of their addiction, but is giving a person yet another drug really a solution?

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What Is an Addict?

The answer to the question “What is an addict?” is one that can excite violent emotions, depending on the experiences of the person you ask. It’s also an answer that can be dramatically colored by the portrayal of addicted people in the news, in...

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So You’re “In Recovery” – But What IS it?

One of the subjects covered in a recent U.S. Surgeon General report is the nature of recovery itself. Does it mean different things to different people or is there a consensus?

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The Dual Diagnosis Dilemma

What may appear to be a mental disorder can often just be a symptom of drug or alcohol withdrawal. Once through withdrawal, symptoms such as depression and anxiety are often eliminated.

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Naloxone is Vital to Save Lives But Is it Enough?

Naloxone is used to revive someone who has overdosed on heroin or other opioids. Yet is it enough when some will just go out and use again, possibly overdosing again the next day?

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Teen Drug Use Hampers Development of Vital Life Skills

Teen Drug Use Hampers Development of Vital Life Skills Today, drugs invade the homes of American children earlier than ever before. Those who start drug use early may never have a chance to develop sound life skills and may turn to drugs as a solution.

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Identifying and Helping the High-Functioning Addict

A high-functioning addict is a person with all the trappings of success and happiness but is dependent on drugs or alcohol to cope. Co-workers, family, bosses and members of their entourage may all think this person has an enviable life.