Know When it is Time to Get Help Admitting to yourself that you have an alcohol addiction is the first step toward getting help to change yourself and eliminate your addiction. People in your family have complained to you regarding how you look and that you...
Trauma and addiction are often interlinked. Trauma can cause mental and emotional scars which can lead to addiction, and addiction can lead to dangerous behavior that can cause trauma. Understanding how to manage both trauma and addiction is an important part of the healing process at...
Peer pressure comes in many forms. It is most widely acknowledged for being a pervasive force during school years; however, peer pressure can affect people of all ages.
Peer pressure is any sort of influence that pressures someone to act a certain way. Peer pressure can be direct or indirect, but the result is often the same: it results in someone changing their behavior to match that of their peer group.
Unfortunately, many people succumb to addiction as a result of peer pressure. In this article, we’re going to talk about how peer pressure can lead to addiction.
One of the biggest problems that recovering drug addicts must deal with is a relapse. The rates of relapse are incredibly high, even among people who have successfully gone through rehab. One of the reasons for this is because people may not properly learn how to deal with their drug cravings and the triggers that lead up to them.
A trigger can be a person, place, situation, or thing that causes an individual to crave drugs. Drug cravings can be dealt with in a number of ways, but one of the best ways to deal with them is a preventative measure: be aware of your triggers, and learn how to deal with or avoid these triggers so that the cravings don’t come in the first place.
This article will outline some of the most common triggers for people who are going through drug cravings.
Drug abuse and trauma often go hand-in-hand. Many drug users are the victims of trauma already, and yet the addictions that they are likely to fall into may cause even more trauma. This is part of the vicious cycle of drug addiction, and one of the most difficult barriers on the road to recovery.
In this article, we’ll talk about how drug abuse and trauma are linked together and how understanding these issues can make someone more likely to overcome their addictions.
One of the main leading causes of addiction is trauma.
Trauma is an emotional issue that arises when a person has to go through an intense experience that they are unable to mentally cope with. Since the mind is incapable of coping with the experience, it is internalized in the body in the form of trauma.
The Facts on Addiction Therapy There are many addictions that can take control of your life. The two most prevalent are illicit drugs and alcohol. With the lifestyle we as American lead, we don’t stop to consider if the occasional glass of wine with dinner or...