Tag: drug addiction
How You Can Help an Alcoholic
The best way to help an alcoholic is indirectly. This means that you should not attempt to control their behavior. Don’t attempt to convince them to just quit the booze. Do not threaten them or shame them or engage with angry arguments with them. None of these tactics work at all. At best these tactics [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: alcohol addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug abuse, drug addiction, recovery
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Help Guide for Alcoholism
If you or someone you know needs help with alcoholism then you might want to consider taking action. So what is the ideal action to take? In my opinion the ideal siutation is for the struggling alcoholic to find a rehab center that has a professional detox area and get checked in. This is the [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, drug addiction, recovery
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What are some Signs of Alcohol Addiction?
Most people would think that it is fairly easy to spot the signs of alcohol addiction - just watch for someone who is drinking too much, right? But it goes further than this because we will also want to tell the difference between alcohol addiction verus just abuse. They are two different things and the procedures [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drug addiction
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Should you Consider Outpatient Drug Rehab?
Outpatient drug rehab has some limitations. In my own situation, outpatient treatment did not really work as far as my own recovery went. But there are some positives as well, and it does have good outcomes for some.
Outpatient is basically the groups, therapy, and lectures that occur in an inpatient rehab setting, just without the [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction treatment, drug addiction, drug rehab, outpatient rehab
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What are the Basics of Helping an Addict?
How can we give addiction help to a struggling drug addict or alcoholic?
To start with, one thing that can be helpful is for you to modify your behavior towards them in a healthy manner. What you want to do is act in a truly healthy manner and to do this you must not enable them [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2009 under Self Improvement.
Tags: addiction, addiction recovery, addiction treatment, alcoholism, drug addiction
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