Tag: addiction
Every Day We Gamble, So Why is Playing Poker so Different
There is somewhat a dark cloud over gamblers, people basically do not want to socialise with them or even mix with them.
But is this really what is true? Gamblers in my opinion are just like any other people but with a hobby, I mean you would not think badly about some one that plays golf, [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, gambling, lifestyle, money, poker
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How to Diagnose Your Alcoholism or Problem Drinking
How can you determine if you have an addiction to alcohol?
To anyone who is not struggling with alcoholism, such a question might seem bizarre because they think the answer should be obvious. This can really be a tricky situation for some people, especially if you are still in the phase of drinking where you [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction, recovery
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How to Diagnose a Drinking Problem
If you believe that you have some sort of issue with alcohol then your first course of action is to properly diagnose your problem. What is the true nature of your problem and what is the extent of it? Is your problem really with drinking too much or does your problem really get nasty when [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, drinking problem, drug addiction
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Giving Addiction Help to a Struggling Addict
Alcoholism and addiction can affect almost any individual because there are so many new opportunities for it to do so now. You have got young people and college students who are smoking dope. There is a lot of peer pressure to drink alcohol in our culture and there is opportunity to do so almost everywhere [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, addiction treatment, drug abuse, drug addiction
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What are Some of the Different Methods to Stop Drinking with?
For the true alcoholic, the idea that they can just stop drinking is no light matter. Because there are a bunch of different ways to get sober out there, which techniques prove to be the best and which ones don’t work so well?
1) Willpower - This is essentially the same as not using any [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction, stop drinking
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How to Help an Alcoholic that Resists Traditional Recovery Solutions
Knowing how to help an alcoholic is a difficult thing to do. Perhaps the best we can do is offer a system of recovery that works for them and encourage them to find out what that system is.
One of the big issues with our usual recovery programs is that they generally try to get alcoholics [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction
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