It hurts a lot of people when someone becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol. It is often the loved ones who first seek out help to answer their questions about rehabilitation. When someone is as close as a brother or a sister, the need for help can be overwhelming. Residential treatment is a new concept for many people. When choosing a residential treatment program for your brother, you’ll want to keep in mind that the longer the program, the better chance for success. Short term and outpatient … [Read more...] about A Residential Treatment Center to help my addicted Brother
Addiction Stories
A Final Promise to help an addicted Friend
How do I help my friend who is dying from alcohol addiction? For years—his family, our friends, his wife—we all tried to tell him that he was spiraling downward. He used up all of his sick days and vacation time but then he still kept calling his job to tell them that he wasn’t coming in. Then he lost his job. His wife became the sole breadwinner as he withdrew more and more into drinking. Finally, we could not watch it anymore. We got together, planned an intervention and got him to realize … [Read more...] about A Final Promise to help an addicted Friend
LIFE WITH A DRUG ADDICT: GETTING OUT ALIVE part two
part oneI began getting calls and visits from strange men looking for Keith because he owed them money for drugs. Afraid that my young daughter and I would be injured by his rough friends in order to “teach him a lesson,” I eventually refinanced my home – which was almost paid off - in order to settle his drug bills. He used to bring his paychecks home and just give them to me to pay bills, but he eventually got fired, of course, and he never gave me money after that, he only took, took, … [Read more...] about LIFE WITH A DRUG ADDICT: GETTING OUT ALIVE part two
To the youth of today
I'm reaching out to you and asking you for a few minutes of your time. As a youth at the age of 13 I started using drugs; as time went on my drug use became more serious everyday. I am now a woman sitting in a rehabilitation center at the age of 30 trying to pull the pieces of my shattered life back together. Drugs have completely destroyed my life, my children's lives and my relationships with close friends and my family's lives. I ask that you think about this and make the right choice … [Read more...] about To the youth of today
A Recovering Drug Addict Needs Nothing but Motivation
Addiction is always bad and has always proven to be harmful No matter what addiction one has, if it is an addiction, one has to suffer. A very old saying says anything in excess is bad and that is how addiction becomes inevitable bad. Basically addiction is something in which an individual gets very much used to a particular thing or commodity. In addiction, the commodity one gets addicted to become a daily need of the person and it becomes hard for the person to survive or be normal without … [Read more...] about A Recovering Drug Addict Needs Nothing but Motivation
The Last Words of a Dying Woman
In her hospital bed she narrated the painful story . . . then she died. But the story was a lesson to many. For the wise learn from other people’s mistakes and not from their own mistakes. This is the painful story of Cate... It all started when I was in high school. Exams were hard; we even called them ICU (Intensive cramming unit). A friend told me of how Marijuana would calm my mind and that I could read day and night. I tried for the first time and it worked pretty well. The next time I … [Read more...] about The Last Words of a Dying Woman
Alcohol Turns A National Hope To A Corpse
For more than 18 years of his life Joel had worked hard both in his primary level education and in high school. Indeed, in January 2nd 2006 his name was in the local daily. It was all about “Joel tops once again”. It is usually unusual for someone to top national examination both in the primary level and secondary level. Joel had done it. His parents were overjoyed. They thought he would be a blessing. His three brothers had indeed disappointed the parents who were peasant farmers, by their … [Read more...] about Alcohol Turns A National Hope To A Corpse
The Dangers of Beer Pong
My friends and I have played Beer Pong since our junior year of high school. We would all spend the night at one of three houses; one, where the parents were so cool they bought our beer for us, one where the single mom was always out on dates, and one where the dad worked 24 hour shifts sometimes as a firefighter. Alcohol abuse is more dangerous than you think! This went on for a couple of years and when we graduated and went to college, it was even more fun because we could do so in the … [Read more...] about The Dangers of Beer Pong
When Medication becomes a Drug Addiction
These are some true unfortunate stories, very common and very easy to fall into and many rehabilitation drug centers hear them all the time. People take medication for a physical problem and before they know it, they end up addicted. How did it happen? When medication becomes a drug addiction, Drug Rehab Centers always can help you, so you can get your life back on track. Many times, it has to do with how our bodies and our brains deal with pain. Truthfully, they don't handle it in good way. … [Read more...] about When Medication becomes a Drug Addiction