Topic: recognizing addiction

The behaviors of alcoholics and addicts are so predictable because the disease follows a certain progression.

For many, only age and health issues, or an unanticipated dip in that protective tolerance, were enough to finally motivate them to seek help.

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.

In the early and middle stages of addiction, addicts may experience mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms without recognizing them.

Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.

There’s a big difference between “knowing” that something is a disease, and actually treating it as one.

The drugs or alcohol have turned someone you love into a monster. How can we turn them back?

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.

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.