Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-11 | Word Count: 453 | Views: 140 In recent times, alcoholism itself is being recognized as the primary issue to be dealt with rather than underlying social, psychological or physiological factors that may have caused it. Earlier, these factors were considered primary and alcoholism was secondary to these problems; thus treatment was also in that order of priority.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-11 | Word Count: 422 | Views: 151 New research is being carried out extensively to develop better ways of dealing with alcoholism and treating its devastating effects on individuals' lives and health.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-10 | Word Count: 380 | Views: 164 Short-term effects and Long-term effects of Alcohol Consumption.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-07 | Word Count: 405 | Views: 137 We are addicted to a substance or an activity when we repeatedly crave for it and would go to great lengths (often even detrimental to our well being) to obtain or experience it. Addictions can be to substances such as alcohol and drugs or even to activities such as gambling and sex.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-07 | Word Count: 360 | Views: 151 The most commonly felt effects of physical withdrawal from tobacco smoking are feelings of anger, depression, anxiety and restlessness. A chain smoker's body experiences sharply rising and falling levels of nicotine on a daily basis.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-07 | Word Count: 475 | Views: 206 Do you feel anxious about getting your prescription filled before it runs out? Do you need to take more pills than before to achieve the effect you desire? Do you get your prescriptions from many doctors? Perhaps you are, like many others, a sufferer of a drug addiction.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-06 | Word Count: 402 | Views: 79 Commonly prescribed for its effectiveness as an analgesic or pain reliever, addiction to hydrocodone is today being viewed as a mounting crisis. While addiction to illicit drugs, like cocaine, marijuana and heroin that claim national headlines ever so often, is widely talked about, we scarcely know about hydrocodone abuse and addiction.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-06 | Word Count: 359 | Views: 145 Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It among the most abused and fastest acting of the opiates (opiates, also called narcotics, are a family of drugs which are used in the medical profession to relieve pain, but are also highly abused due to this very property).
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-06 | Word Count: 393 | Views: 190 Cocaine has enormously devastating side effects which can eventually be fatal. It acts extremely rapidly and its short term side effects can even be experienced by a person who has used it just once.
Expert Author: Jack Smith | Category: Addictions Submitted: 2006-01-06 | Word Count: 417 | Views: 183 It is most important to stay motivated during the process of recovery. It helps to make a list of benefits, or advantages of quitting the addictive behavior. These should be benefits that are very valuable to you - valuable enough to turn your back on the addiction. Setbacks will occur and should be viewed as opportunities to learn.