Is a Person Predisposed to Drug Addiction by Genetic Factors Or Environmental Factors?
It has long been known that children raised in families where drug abuse and addiction are present are statistically more likely to experience those same problems in their own lives. What hasn’t been clear is whether this propensity was the result of exposure to the addictive behaviors, or some genetic command. Recent discoveries brought the answers nearer.
Don’t Take the First Sucker – Drink Or Drug
If one leads to another why do we take the first one? The cycle of addiction can be broken if we pay attention to our mental diet. Negative thoughts, lead to negative feeling that lead to using. What would my life be like if I stopped the cycle of use? Ever wondered how addiction develops?
I’m Addicted to Prescription Drugs – Scientists Find Clue to Anxiety Drug Addiction
Imagine these addictive drugs passing along the same pathways, and it isn’t difficult to see how easily it is to become ‘hooked.’ This was one of the main causes of my first stay in a psych ward. I started eating Valium like sweets. First, one a day was fine. Then I found I wasn’t really obtaining any relief from just one, so I went on to two. Ah! That was much better – for a time. Then three, then four and before I knew it, I was on the road to hospital
Laws Cannot Always Protect Against Elder Abuse
n The say that you cannot make regulations on morality and if you do they will end up hurting all the decent people, and so, when looking at the elder care facilities and all the people that work in senior care assisted living facilities or old folks homes it appears there are some problems brewing. [...]
Drug-Free Workplaces: 10 Myths & Insider Tips: How Employers Establish and Keep Drugs Out of the Workplace
MYTH: Most Individuals addicted to alcohol and/or illicit drugs are unemployed. Reality: More than 75% of substance addicted persons work. [SAMHSA 2007] The rate of substance addicted workers in the average workplace is about 13%. Employer Tip: Search the SAMHSA website for current substance abuse statistics and free information about prevention and treatment. Workplace addiction [...]
