Some people may confuse drinking heavily with alcoholism. While the former is an unhealthy but ultimately controlled habit, an alcoholic has no control over his need to drink and his body becomes so dependent on it that withdrawal may result in nausea, sweats and other physical symptoms. An alcoholic will also find that day-to-day activities become impossible – relationships and work commitments are all secondary to alcohol. While recognising the symptoms of alcohol is easy enough, pinpointing its causes are not.

As a child of an addict, you have several issues with which you will likely need to contend. Addiction has a tendency to run in families, leaving you with an increased susceptibility to addictive behaviors yourself. You will invariably have relationship issues with which you need to be concerned as well.

People often wonder at the level of their substance use or abuse, and although those people that do wonder have some cause for concern (as people with no problems with use don’t think about it) …

Are you enabling your Child to continue in the Addiction Process?
Addiction to drugs and alcohol among our children covers the entire social and economic spectrum in our society. Many ascribe addiction to poor parenting, however …

from CounselorDave
In 1956 the American Medical Association (AMA) declared Addiction to alcohol and other drugs, to be a disease.  The American Psychiatric Association (APA) followed the AMA, in 1960.  Addiction to AOD qualifies as a …

from addictionWhen the Soviet Union fell and greater freedoms became available to its citizens, an undesirable side effect of this change was greater access to narcotics. In particular, heroin. And, as in many other countries, …