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Understanding Gambling Addiction

How long has Gambling been around? The best I can come up with is that gambling has been part of the human culture for many years, possibly hundreds or thousands in one form or another. A set of ivory dice dating from before 1500 BC was discovered from Thebes, while specific writings mentioning gambling were found on a tablet in the Pyramid of Cheops.
As early as the 14th century, we have...

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First Drug Addiction will take money, mind, family and then possibly your life

First Drug Addiction takes your Money, then it takes your Mind, Family, and then sadly enough, it can take your Life.
Heroin, hasn’t this drug been talked about enough? Hasn’t everything been said that can or needs to be said about this drug? Well….., try asking that to a mother, father, child, sibling, grandparent, relative, a loved one, a spouse,...

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Treatment and Intervention doesn't have to be done voluntarily to be effective!

Treatment and Intervention doesn’t have to be done voluntarily to be effective! Do you know of someone, a spouse, your child, a sibling, a loved one or a friend that is in desperate need of help for drug or alcohol abuse and dependency but, they just aren’t ready?
In many ways, you are as lost and scared as the addict. They’re hurting deep inside as well as...

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Prescription Drug Abuse and Addiction on the Rise

With legends like Michael Jackson are dying due to prescription drug use, the United States is again becoming acutely aware of the prescription drug problem that exists. Approximately fifty million Americans, which include the teenage population, have utilized prescription drugs for uses that are not medical related.
In 2007 a survey was conducted that found prescription drug use had risen...

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Physicians: The First Line of Defense to Substance Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation

Dr. Stewart is a physician whom has owned his own practice for about twenty years now. John has been a patient of Dr. Stewart’s for about ten years. John has come to see Dr. Stewart for his yearly checkup. Dr. Stewart asks John the regular questions:
How are you feeling? Anything out of ordinary you would like to tell me about? How’s the wife and kids?
Dr....

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Prescription Drug Abuse Dangers: A Few Fatal Drug Combinations to Consider

Recreational drugs are bad. Prescription Drugs are ok and mixing stuff, well that’s not a problem. It seems, based on statistics today, that this is the general consensus of the American public. Let’s review a few different scenarios and explain why mixing drugs, even those that your doctor has prescribed, could not only be dangerous, but fatal.
Got Viagra? Ever see the movie...

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Another Reason to Stay Sober From Addiction: Beer Pong and the Swine Flu (H1N1 Virus)

So, what do most college sophomores and juniors do on Saturday nights? Study; goes shopping, dinner, or a movie? Sure, any of those options are possible on any college campus. A really popular option not to be forgotten is a good game of beer pong.
The great thing about this game is you can easily set up the game in a dorm room, frat house or at your local bar. It is a game one can take...

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Alcoholism Addiction - A Case Study of an Alcoholic

When one realizes that no matter how much they may know about theoretical drug problems and alcohol problems, it is still possible to be staring in the face of a full on alcoholic and not know it until after the fact. Alcoholism and drug problems, much like other chronic illnesses, are not things one can identify just by looking at someone’s face. However, if one pays attention there...

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Another American Legend Gone: Implications of Prescription Drug Addiction and Abuse in America

Another legend dies due to drug use. Not illegal drug use mind you, just prescription medication. Though the autopsy reports for Michael Jackson do not yet show what the pop singer passed away from, the countless prescription medications Jackson was taking are suspect.
Another example is 28 year old Heath Ledger who passed away about a year and a half ago due to an overdose of sleeping...

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Depression as a Cause of Substance Abuse and Addiction: The Vicious Cycle

Why does substance abuse become a cycle? Is it weakness on the part of the drug user? Is the failure of the drug treatment system? The answer to these questions cannot be answered in a single sentence. Most people, who do not have a substance abuse disorder, blame the inpidual. It is an easy thing to do since the assumption is the inpidual must have control over his or her behavior. This is true...

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