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Out of the many resources on the internet today there is a lack of help for those of us who are in a relationship where both people are recovering from an addiction. Addiction is a devastating, insidious and incurable disease that affects people from all walks of life. From the…
It has been debated whether or not pornography can be categorized as an addiction. In my experience, I could tell you that it is. There are many people in this world, including myself, who's life has been negatively influenced by porn. There are many who desire to be clean of…
Smoking is the cause of the most deaths in the USA than any other disease. Millions of people, young as well as old are affected by this dangerous scourge. But, what is smoking? It can be defined as the habit of burning, inhaling, and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or…
We all know that the first step in any recovery program is to rid our bodies of all drugs including alcohol. In other words it means to become clean and sober. It is often a huge decision for a drug addict/alcoholic. First and foremost you must have reached a place…
No one treatment option is suitable for all cocaine users. Often it takes a combination of several options for some, and yet some can kick the habit with only one way. Any chemical dependence is a complex problem unique to each user. The reasons why anyone starts, is as many…
I just read an article that talks about all the conflicts of interest that are involved when it comes to the facts of alcoholism. The number of people and organizations that benefit from this disease is astounding. The amount of money that these people make is even more astounding. So…
The key element to sobriety is happiness. What makes you happy. People say that getting clean and sober is the easy part, but staying sober is the hard part. Find positive support that understands the importance of staying clean. Choose activities that make you feel good and boost your self-esteem…
I have experience it firsthand. Returning home from a thirty day treatment program I was thankfully greeted by loving and supportive family members. Feeling like a totally new person I faced my friends who are not addicts with the same excitement only to find them either lost for words or…
Figuring out the best ways to quit smoking is going to be different for everyone trying to kick the cigarette habit. When I attempted it I tried several methods, and it took me many attempts to figure out which one would work for me. Below are the 5 best methods…
Let me count the ways to quit smoking. Sounds like a line from Shakespeare, yet here you are researching it on the internet. No doubt you have tried to quit on your own. Yeah! The cold turkey method! I’ll just smoke one less each day until I’m not smoking any…
by Jonathan M. King.
Many of the problems of poverty are brought about by GM farming. This means the farming of genetically modified crops. This sort of farming creates the following problems. *Redirection of water thus starving other crops. *Reclaiming stealing land through 3rd world government corruption. *Using land for…
“Hitting the Rock Bottom” is a common phrase, especially to those individuals who got caught with alcohol or drug addiction. Maybe some of those individuals have already experienced that happening, which makes them change their self-destructive behavior. Unfortunately, what many people are not aware of being the exact event that…
If you are having a difficult time coping with heroin withdrawal then you just might want to check out a heroin addiction rehab because there best place to go through withdrawal. Doing so could be the turning point in your life where you start to break those old habits of…
by Jonathan M. King.
Sounds wierd suggesting while Fresco perhaps wrote the book on higher consciousness, all Fresco needs to do to complete the equation is to add consciousness. His vision is really sound but as a scientist of course it is a little difficult for him to accept
As…
Alcoholism is a very difficult problem. But, learning how to stop being an alcoholic was easy once I identified what the true problem was. I previously thought alcoholism was a mental problem with people who couldn't seem to handle reality. At least that is what most people think. For me…
I used to love smoking, I really did. It's an unpopular opinion nowadays, but I seem to have been born with a cigarette in my mouth. I enjoyed every drag from the first one in the morning to the last drag at night, but I hated what it did to…
Wasting time at the office is one of the most important thing that is hated by an employer and there are a lot of workers and professionals who simply wastes their time at the office by doing other odd things. Wasting time at the office clearly reduces the output of…
Tobacco cigarettes are banned from being smoked inside public places because of the toxic smoke that is released from the cigarette being harmful not only to the smoker, but everyone around. However E Cigs can be smoked right at your desk in the middle of work, you can smoke them…
Drug rehabilitation programs, also simply known as drug rehab, are programs that feature medical and psycho-therapeutic treatment for people who have dependencies on psychoactive substances, including the likes of prescription drugs, alcohol and street drugs like heroin and amphetamines.
What types of drug rehab programs exist?
Several types of drug…
We all know that smoking is bad for you, right? In this day and age, it's a no brainer. All of us should really stop smoking. But what exactly is bad for you about smoking? Today, we are going to look at one thing that the anti-smoking people lay the…
by Jonathan M. King. PART 2.
The local Mayor of “any-city” is sitting on a pot of money which has got names on it like sustainable, green, renewable and eco- friendly. Every politician wants to be seen to be doing the right thing, and they always want to get re-elected.…
People have differences on how bodies react to various substances. That’s why some people don’t get addicted and some can easily develop a substance addiction. The right treatment programs are created based on the individual’s unique needs.
Many addiction rehab facilities require their patients to go through a series of…
Heather Locklear, an actress, who played Sammy Jo Dean Carrington on Dynasty (1981 - 1989) and played Amanda Woodward on "Melrose Place" (2010) was recently hospitalized because she mixed alcohol and prescription drugs. She has had problems with using too many prescription drugs before (2008). She recently broke up with…
When you try to break a bad habit such as an addiction to nicotine, to alcohol or to other drugs you will face relapses. Learn how to deal with them differently in order to really overcome your addiction.
Do you remember how you learned things in the past?
Whenever you…
As the title of this article suggests, there are things to help you stop smoking. But since the term "things" is a little ambiguous, let me be a little more specific.
Everyone is different. We all have different likes and dislikes. We were all raised different. Some of us have…
A 3 am start to my day found an article from my favourite Author “My Truth About Drinking” it said, kick, direct to the groin. The thought that she had a drinking problem nearly had me switch off the computer. I lost 2000 words of technical writing yesterday from a…
by Jonathan M. King.
Regarding the crash of 2008, Goldman Sachs was there again. They put together packages called Collateral Debt Obligations- these were merely bundles of dodgy subprime loans, loans constructed in much the same way as the Greek scenario but with housing mortgages in the States. These CDO’s…
The idea of virtual reality therapy is to make addicts crave of their own addiction and then have them decide not to use the addictive substance.
Virtual reality therapy is a kind of treatment that utilizes virtual reality technology to simulate real life experiences. It is used to cure phobias…
Many people need help for prescription drug addiction. This can be from various opiate drugs one that I am well aware of is that many folks are abusing the prescription medication percocet which is highly addictive so with this being said, if you think you may have a percocet addiction…
by Jonathan M. King. PART 3
Fresco: "Meaningful tasks create the incentive, we need to move away from monetary orientated incentive to problem solving incentive. Survey what we have, what we need and how to create it. An example: Money power and borders often cause us to mine resources on…
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