Detox Rehab Case Study
I overheard a mother talking to a counsel about her son’s drug addiction problem. She’s finding it hard to understand what drove her son to take drugs when she knows that he is much aware of the damaging effects of substance abuse on a person’s brain and overall health.
Her son is now [...]

Alcoholism or alcohol addiction is said to be one of the most difficult kinds of addiction to treat in terms of getting the patient to initially admit and accept the fact that he has turned into an alcoholic. Denial is common in most alcoholics, and this hinders treatment from the very start because you cannot [...]

It’s no joke to suffer from addiction. Those who have been through the tormenting phase of losing control of their actions, decisions and sanity due to addiction will testify on the harrowing experience of seeing their life crumble before their eyes and feeling too helpless to do anything about it. Addiction is a serious disorder [...]

Gambling Addiction Help Case Study
Over dinner with a group of relatives the other night, our conversation drifted to the topic of one of my cousins, Lizzie, whose husband seriously needs gambling addiction help. None of us wants to meddle with Lizzie’s marital problems, but we just can’t help being concerned for her family’s welfare.
The gambling [...]

Sex addiction was the topic of my lunch conversation with a group of co-workers today because one of our office mates expressed her concern over her recent discovery of the unusual sexual behavior of her teenage son.
She said that she knew of her son’s interest in girls back when he was in grade school, but [...]

Sadness is a universal emotion that everyone goes through every now and then. It’s a feeling that can be evoked by a movie, a book, a personal argument or fight, a disappointment, financial or work-related problems. We all feel sad for various reasons. But if the sadness lingers for an alarming length of time or [...]

Dual diagnosis occurs when people who are suffering from drug or alcohol addiction show symptoms of emotional or psychiatric problems at the same time – hence the terms co-occurring disorders, co-morbidity, concurrent illnesses, and dual disorder that are also used to describe the condition.
Studies show that 37 percent of alcoholics and 53 percent of drug [...]

Gambling has become a vice that has hooked thousands of people all over the world. Solid evidence to this is the proliferation of casinos and online gaming sites that never seem to run out of a steady stream of patrons.
In Las Vegas alone, gambling is a thriving business that consistently attracts old and new players [...]