I have been reading a lot and getting first-hand information on several residential rehabs in the course of doing my case studies on long-term drug treatment and dual diagnosis treatment centers. In most of the cases I studied, it was favorable for patients to complete their substance abuse treatment in a residential rehab as compared [...]

During lunch the other day, one of my office mates shared that his mother has just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. It was a big blow to their family and he still can’t get over the fact that there’s no cure to the disease. It saddens him to think that he and his siblings would [...]

I feel guilty for being so busy in the past couple of years and not keeping in touch with some of my closest college friends. This guilty feeling was sparked by my recent encounter with Mel, one of my best buddies in college. We parted ways after college with the promise of keeping in touch [...]

I look forward to our next family reunion not only because I miss spending time with my aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces but also because I want to hear more about one of my teenage cousin’s gambling problem. My aunt told my mom briefly in their phone conversation about the gambling addiction help she [...]

Crystal Meth Rehab Case Study No mother would ever wish for her son to be a drug addict but once he has become a hardened drug dependent, he is better off locked up in jail or in a well-guarded drug addiction treatment center. I recently met a mother who openly admitted that she’s relieved that [...]

What is undeniably the most popular and most controversial illegal drug in America, and probably in other parts of the world as well, is what is colloquially known as pot, weed, grass or joint. It is more widely known as Marijuana, the drug made from the Cannabis sativa plant, which has the main psychoactive substance [...]