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Can You Cope?
You might be surprised...to learn that by age six we are programmed with the identity we will carry through life. We need to go through some REDISCOVERY if we are to live successfully from our hearts.
Connie Baum
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Effects Of Alcohol Abuse
This article compares your relationship with alcohol to a love affair. It suggests ways which you can understand the relationship better and how to become motivated to end your destructive love affair with alcohol. The article was written by a man who had a 30 year chronic addiction to alcohol and who discovered how to stop drinking for good and never suffer a relapse.
Rob Maggs
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I Used To Be Addicted
Are you one that says that you have to drink alcohol to be social? Do you need a mixed drink to take the edge off? Do you have to have a little something to relax you when you arrive home from work? I was a heavy drinker for a time in my younger adult life. I had my periods of victory, which lasts from six months to a couple years, but I fell back and I am not proud of it.
Walter Taylor
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What About Addiction Treatment
One main function of Treatment is providing "Tools", or skills to help resist the "craving" for the drug-of-choice. In the end, though, helping the addict return to normal functioning in society can be the most important and difficult part of the recovery process. Being an addict ruins a person's life, and it takes a lot of patience to regain the ability to work as a responsible employee, function as a family member, and just generally be a productive member of society!
David R Carroll
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The Causes Of Addiction
There is much debate about the causes of addiction. Because there are two components to addiction --the physical addiction and the psychological addiction-- it is likely that many factors create a risk for addiction. In the case of certain drugs such as methamphetamine or heroin, almost any individual who comes into contact will become addicted. On the other hand, addictive behaviors such as shopping or eating are used moderately by the majority of the population and only become...
Patrick Mclemore
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Addiction Recovery Tip Number 10 - Go Back To School
One way to work on your recovery is to develop your mind. When you were in the midst of your addiction, your mind became weak. When you return to a life without substances, you need to strengthen your mind. How can you do this? Go back to school.
Dusty Lindemann
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If Not Now, Then When?
Alcoholics and drug addicts are notorious for having what is called "fox hole religion". We are always ready to make a promise to not drink or use anymore when things get really bad, but the minute we get a little physical sobriety we are back off to the races. The need to escape causes us to set aside the pain that results from our using and start up again as if we have the ability to stop like others do.
Robert Pardon
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10 Essential Things to Consider When Seeking Help Through Addiction Treatment
Your life has become unmanageable, and you now realize that your best thinking gets you loaded, or even worse, sick and behind bars. Acceptance is the first step in treating an addiction.
Jaime Staggs
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Inspiration To Overcome Addictions Can Be Found Almost Anywhere
Addiction isn't supposed to feel good, so how is one to learn they are addicted? It took an old time English poet and philosopher to get my attention.
Jeffery S. Miller
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Painkiller Addiction
Addiction to painkiller is a common problem due to the increasing numbers of injury, accident & illness that ends up in chronic pain & its treatment conducted by prescription narcotics. With time, frequent use of this drug can actually result in addiction.
Bertil Hjert
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