Addiction has always been a very complicated illness, and treating addiction requires a combination of complex treatments. Despite these efforts, many patients will still relapse and give into their addiction after being ‘clean’ for a significant amount of time. Whether an addiction is to nicotine, alcohol, gambling or drugs, it takes control over a person’s life at a harmful rate. Recent studies have been developing a vaccination to help cure drug addiction – without the

PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder suffered by people who have encountered a traumatic event. PTSD can have a serious effect on a person’s everyday life as they suffer from a range of nightmares, flashbacks and vivid memories. These, in turn, can cause a person to become isolated and easily agitated. SUD People with PTSD are more likely, than others, to develop a Substance Use Disorder (SUD) as they turn to

I hate meetings, I hate a Higher Power, I hate anyone who has a Program. To all who come into contact with me, I wish suffering and I wish death. Allow me to introduce myself, I am the disease of Addiction Cunning, Baffling and Powerful, thats me. I love to catch you with the element of surprise. I love pretending I am your friend and lover. I have given you comfort, have I not? Wasn’t

Gambling addiction is an impulse-control disorder. When a person is gripped by with a gambling disorder they will be unable to successfully control the urge or impulse to gamble, no matter the consequences or potential loss. Similar to those addicted to drugs and other harmful activities gambling addictions can have an adverse effect upon every facet of a person’s life, social, relationships, profession, due to this suffering from a gambling addiction can be extremely harmful

An addiction to drugs or alcohol can fragment previously happy families, derail promising careers, and seriously damage health and wellbeing; and left unchecked, addictions inevitably run their full course of destruction. Today we will look at one of the most saturated terms thrown around when talking about addiction and the dangers belief in it poses. Rock Bottom is one of the most popular term used to describe a way to say a person struggling with