Which Marijuana Users Get Addicted
Did you know that 40 percent of marijuana users are parents? The use of marijuana is rising with legalization and normalization. There is a lot...
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Children of Alcoholics and Addicts Have PTSD
You may think that only soldiers at war experience Post Traumatic Stress symptoms, but that is far from the truth. Parents and children of alcoholics...
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Dealing With Grief
When my 39-year old sister died, I couldn’t function. I couldn’t quit crying let alone make it off the couch to cook dinner for my...
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Why Conduct Disorder Is A Serious Problem
From Medical News Today Conduct disorder is a common and highly impairing psychiatric disorder that usually emerges in childhood or adolescence. It is characterized by...
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Is It Use, Misuse, Or Addiction
While the current DSM-5 focuses on the level of substance use disorders as mild, moderate, and severe, it can still be valuable to look at ...
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6 Reasons Recovery Fails
Recovery fails, but not because of the addicts. But don’t call people with Substance or Alcohol Use Disorders addicts. After twenty years of seeing millions...
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7 Types Of Mental Illness
Seven types of mental illness contribute to the rising suicide rates that are so much in the news these days. For millions of people who...
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Detachment From What Others Say About Us
Detachment has many meanings, and many applications. One definition of detachment is “a state of being lost in thought.” Detachment is synonymous with being pensive,...
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9 Reasons To Call Addiction A Disease
Is addiction a disease? It depends on who you ask. Classifying addiction as a disease is most prevalent and most accurate. Yet this still remains...
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What Are The Stages Of Alcoholism
Alcohol still the most abused of all intoxicants, yet many consume alcohol without any problems or ever developing and addiction. Here are some crucial facts...
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Warning Signs of Sex Addiction
Do you know the warning signs of a sex addiction? There is a distinct difference between a healthy interest in sex and a sex addiction....
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What Is Unresolved Grief
Unresolved grief is more common that we think. Grief for someone we lost is only one cause of lingering sadness. I grieved for my mother...
