All Posts Tagged With: "addiction"
How to Quit Drinking
In early recovery it is all we can do to just stay sober for another day. We might struggle to stay sober for a 24 hour period and in order to make it through this tough time we might have to focus on networking and getting help from the fellowship. This is fine but as [...]
3Mar2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
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. Since there are several different strategies that can be used to quit drinking with, which ones give good results in most situations?
1) Willpower - This is essentially the same as not using any technique at all, but only [...]
Addiction Help for Struggling Drug Addicts
How can we give addiction help to addicts who are struggling with addiction?
The real secret to this is all about encouraging the struggling addict to become enthusiastic about their own life in recovery. But how can we actually do that? It is a hard lesson to learn, but we cannot directly control another person, [...]
How you Can Stop Drinking and Start Living Recovery
Most people get confused when it comes to quitting drugs and alcohol, because they see it as a process of elimination. They believe the main point is in getting off the drugs and then coming up with a strategy for dealing with future triggers that might lead to a relapse.
If recovery were truly this [...]
Addiction Help for Struggling Addicts
Getting addiction help will involve contacting either professional services of some sort or a 12 step treatment program. This is the program that is most popular and therefore easily located when it comes to beating an addiction. These professional treatment services could include a stay at a drug rehab center with a medical detoxification unit [...]
28Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Helping others with Addiction
Alcoholism and addiction can affect almost any individual because there are so many new opportunities for it to do so now. You have kids and teenagers who are smoking marijuana. There is booze all over the place in our country and people can feel like they are expected to drink in a lot of situations. [...]
26Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
Using Drug Addiction Therapy to Help you Recover
There are many reasons to try therapy counseling in order to help you recover and I’m going to talk about a few of them.
The first thing we must do is to realize that we actually need help and thus admit to our problem. Once we get to this point it is time to get motivated. [...]
How to Know if You are Suffering from Alcoholism
How can you know if you are an alcoholic?
To anyone who is not struggling with alcoholism, such a question might seem bizarre because they think the answer should be obvious. But it truly can be a baffling question, especially if you are the one who is caught up in the slippery slope of experiencing [...]
Overcome Your Addiction and Quit Drinking
There are a lot of alcoholics and addicts who keep screwing up in recovery and then return to their AA meetings, completely confused about how they can not “get it.” They believe that they are missing out on the secret to staying clean and sober, when in fact they are just screwing up whatever program [...]
25Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued
If You Think You Might Have a Problem with Drinking
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 [...]
25Feb2009 | writer | 0 comments | Continued