Hazardous wasteproducts from speed labs and illicit drug manufacture, such as cocaine production are extremely toxic. A call for more addict help should go out to governments, on behalf of the world environment. The public is made very aware of the toxic ingredients that make up the final content of illicitly manufactured street drugs such as crack, speed, GBH and crystal meth. Drug cartels manufacture vast quantities of drugs such as cocaine. They have neither capacity nor intention to … [Read more...] about Hazardous Waste – Speed Labs and Cocaine
Archives for December 2010
Addict Help: Teen Depression – Substance Abuse
Teen depression can lead to substance abuse as means of finding relief. Although there is a correspondence as between teen depression and teen suicide, not all teens who feel depressed will necessarily see suicide as a solution to the issues that are making them feel depressed. People feel depressed quite simply when they have expectations and beliefs about how things should be in their world, together with a reality which does not match up to this “ideal” image. When adults get depressed, … [Read more...] about Addict Help: Teen Depression – Substance Abuse
Addict Help – New Year’s Resolutions
Make it top of your New Year’s resolutions to get addict help for problems of drug and alcohol abuse. The Christmas and New Year holiday season is an excellent time to sit back, take a break and think about changes and improvements that we can make in our life for the coming year. The festive season is a time for giving and receiving gifts, showing our appreciation for the love and support we receive from family and friends, and to celebrate. Sometimes we find that the festive season is … [Read more...] about Addict Help – New Year’s Resolutions
Anger and Substance Abuse.
Anger and substance abuse are behaviors that we use when under excessive pressure and tension. It is OK to look at and enjoy aggression on the news, in videos, and interactive war games. We can buy tickets to boxing matches and rough spectator sports. In some ways these interactions help us discharge angry feelings that we have about life in general. However, if we try to discharge our angry feelings more directly, we will find ourselves locked up. Society encourages competition and aggression … [Read more...] about Anger and Substance Abuse.
The Family & Teen Drug Abuse
If a family has got it right, and there is mutual respect and harmony between parents, and their children, and between the children in a family – it is very unlikely to be found that the parents do drugs or that teens will turn to drug abuse, in preference to their families. It is thought that the teenage years are naturally a time of intense emotions and rebellion. In fact, the negative acting out is directly caused by dysfunction in the family. The idea of a teenager having a compulsive need … [Read more...] about The Family & Teen Drug Abuse
Addict Help – Depression and Addiction
Addicts need addict help when addiction to substances is used to counteract depression. Often addicts fail to realize that they have depression. People often think that depression is when we feel sad and unhappy about some life event. People who cry and feel sad in fact are actually in the process of relieving their emotions about a sad event. This process of grieving or mourning, feeling a sense of loss, is perfectly natural and healthy – expressing our grief and our pain enables us to relax … [Read more...] about Addict Help – Depression and Addiction
Addiction and Anti Social Behavior.
Addiction is regarded as a problem behavior, with addiction to drugs and alcohol seen as having strong associations with antisocial behavior. All addiction is antisocial in that it diverts our attention from positive relationships with others in society, towards our substance of choice. All addicts need addict help. Addicts who use food, or buy consumer goods to feed their addiction are not seen as being antisocial, merely people with a problem. Gaming addiction is not regarded as being anti … [Read more...] about Addiction and Anti Social Behavior.
Addict help – The Emptiness of Drug Use
Getting addict help for drug use brings people into confrontation with feelings of “emptiness”. There is the emptiness and feeling that something is lacking in life that leads to drug use in the first place. There is also a confrontation for the addict that drug use itself is an empty way of being. Giving addicts help to overcome feelings of negativity about both self and drug use is about changing their whole way of being. Many people turn to meditation as a means to release tension and … [Read more...] about Addict help – The Emptiness of Drug Use
Combat Related Substance Abuse – Addict Help
In the USA, 11 research facilities in 11 States will receive $6.m in funding to investigate causes and solutions to the problem of combat related substance abuse, according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) News, August 2010. People with combat related substance abuse need addict help. The basis for this funding is interesting in that it suggests that combat related substance abuse is somehow different from other reasons why people choose to abuse substances, and become addicts in need of … [Read more...] about Combat Related Substance Abuse – Addict Help
Body Therapy and Addiction – Addict Help
Can body therapy provide addict help in overcoming addiction. Alternative health practitioners who use massage, acupuncture, chiropody, dance and exercise as a means of improving the health of the body often recommend body therapy as a remedy for addiction. People who suffer from any type of compulsive disorder, such as drug or alcohol addiction often find that they feel “better” as a result of body therapy. People feel better and gain relief from feelings of stress when they involve themselves … [Read more...] about Body Therapy and Addiction – Addict Help
Addict Help : Giving Up an Addiction
Addict help for addiction recovery means giving up your addiction. What exactly is involved when we give up our addictions. Many people think of addiction as a disease, something that you have for life, that cannot be given up, something that can only be managed so that you can cope with it and its symptoms. To think that addiction is a lifelong disease is certainly discouraging. Fortunately, holistic addiction recovery specialists see addiction differently. They see addiction as a symptom … [Read more...] about Addict Help : Giving Up an Addiction
Signature of Autism, Addiction – Trauma & The Brain
Autism, addiction and many other kinds of disorder are now found to be impressed in the genetic material of the brain as a unique signature that bears witness to past trauma to the brain. On 17/11/10 Yale School of Medicine has published an informative article with regard to the signature associated with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Whereas to medical science these patterns of genetic disorder appear to have random meaning, this is because they are looking at ASD as if they are caused by … [Read more...] about Signature of Autism, Addiction – Trauma & The Brain