Topic: recognizing addiction
Taking Action: Know the Enemy
The behaviors of alcoholics and addicts are so predictable because the disease follows a certain progression.
Topics: consequences, getting help, Intervention Series, recognizing addiction
The Struggle to Maintain
For many, only age and health issues, or an unanticipated dip in that protective tolerance, were enough to finally motivate them to seek help.
Topics: alcoholism, detoxification, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Do You Know What (Drugs) Your Kids Are Doing?
It is vital that your teen feels able to talk to you about drugs; if they are using but are afraid of the consequences of telling you it will only lead to more deception.
Topics: kids, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Hidden Withdrawal
In the early and middle stages of addiction, addicts may experience mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms without recognizing them.
Topics: detoxification, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Do I Have a Drinking Problem?
Topics: alcoholism, diagnosis, disease, getting help, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Believing in the Disease
There’s a big difference between “knowing” that something is a disease, and actually treating it as one.
Topics: disease, physical effects, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Practical Advice for Parents: Prescription Painkiller Abuse
Many of us already have painkillers sitting on a shelf in the bathroom medicine cabinet, alongside the aspirin and the allergy meds. Sometimes they’re unused from prior medical or dental problems.
Topics: adolescent addiction, opioids, parent child conflict, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.
Topics: addiction and the brain, addictive substances, alcoholism, opioids, pain, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms
Practical Advice on Prescription Painkillers
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.
Topics: addiction medications, alcoholism, opioids, pain, prescription medications, recognizing addiction, signs and symptoms