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A Common Problem or Ghost Story? Everyone recalls the training videos and/or employee handbook they got when starting a new job. There's always a lengthy section about workplace behavior and rules and one of these rules is always the prohibition of consuming alcohol on the premises....
Addiction From a Sheltered Home As is often the case for sheltered children, Michelle's super strict upbringing caused her to act out and sometimes this acting out can lead to addiction. Her mother was an educator and Michelle was often forbidden from doing many of the...
Double Standards All too often, a person comes out of treatment but fails to stay in recovery from their addiction. When this happens, it is often the treatment provider who is held responsible. This demonstrates an unfair an erroneous double standard in the medical field when...
Addiction Fought the Law and...
Do the Trends in the Addiction Field Need to Change? The greatest focus in the treatment of addiction is on 12-Step models, which have been proven to work for thousands upon thousands of people. 12-Step programs, however, are not treatment. As John Grab says, "treatment is...
Early Access Leads to Early Addiction Lydia's experience with mind-altering substances started very early in her life. When she was a child, her parents would throw parties. In her own words, they weren't alcoholics, but they liked to have a few drinks every now and then. At...
Adam's Addiction Began Early Addiction was a problem long before Adam ever picked up his first drug. While not a substance, Adam's addiction was a behavioral addiction: video games. Throughout his childhood, he would play games all day, obsess about them during school, and dream about...
How Society Views Drug Addicts Drug Addiction is an ever-present threat in our society today. It is viewed, however, in a very specific context by society and the majority of people are not aware of it's existence outside of the homeless, the teenage rebels, and the...
Addiction on Deployment Even after Corey graduated as a United States Marine, his addiction continued by way of drinking heavily. Traveling around the world on the expense of the U.S. government, Corey saw the world bits and pieces at a time, as he would get blackout...
Trouble with Treatment Andrew's first wakeup call was one fateful night when he found himself in his car in a parking lot. A rap at his window roused him to consciousness, his forehead on the steering wheel and holding a tray of Heroin, only to see...