There’s a great post on Rehab Help Online about two long-term friends who went to college together, partied together, and spent much of their time together throwing down beers. Fast forward twenty years and one of them is an alcoholic and has just been admitted to the hospital. When his old friend arrives from out [...]
Rehab Help Online is starting a series of profiles of regional drug and alcohol rehab centers, pointing out the differences among them in terms of which aspect of the addict’s problem they specialize in. The key to success when considering a treatment program for someone with a substance abuse problem is matching the patient’s needs [...]
Causes of drug addiction.
Drug and alcohol addiction crosses all social barriers. It seems to hit especially hard on the homeless.
While drug or alcohol addiction is the root cause of many addicts being homeless, there are also a large percentage of people who are homeless through no cause of their own. They turn to addictive substances [...]
One of the most important things our society needs today is helping kids stay away from drugs. The best way for parents, counselors and teachers as well as friends and other family members to accomplish this is by relaying the honest information about drugs to the teens. Teens and drugs has become a huge problem [...]