Addictions

The difference between alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction (alcoholism), what puts you at risk of becoming an alcoholic and what to do once you’ve crossed that invisible line to addiction.

• Predicting Your Alcohol Withdrawal Severity
• An Alcoholism Progression Timeline
• After Drug Addiction, Can You Ever Drink Again?
• HAMS Harm Reduction - An AA Alternative?
• Understanding the 'Dry Drunk' & Steps to Permanent Change

Addiction is not a choice but life-threatening disease. Unfortunately, many people still believe addiction is a choice - and it's a serious problem.

• Addictive Personality? It's Human Being, Not Doing
• How to Help without Enabling
• Support the Grandkids - Don't Enable the Parents
• Drug Treatment for Doctors: Alternative Solutions
• Addicted Celebrities on TV: Suffering as Entertainment?

Learn how the brain changes of addiction exacerbate problems with impulsive and compulsive acts – how impulsivity drives early addiction and compulsivity and impulsivity perpetuate later stages and most importantly, what you can do to retake control.

• Addiction - A Brain Disease
• Need Treatment? Find Evidence Based Therapies!
• Recovery + ADHD: Start by Improving Your Focus
• Protecting Your Privacy in Recovery
• Are You Addicted? Take the APA's Test to Find Out

If you’re looking for a good reason to stop abusing tramadol, read on here for an overview of how tramadol works in the brain and the risks associated with chronic abuse, such as addiction, lowered sleep quality, neonatal abstinence syndrome, medication overuse headache, seizures and more.

• Tramadol Withdrawal and Tapering Guidelines
• How to Manage Tramadol Withdrawal Symptoms
• Coping with Restless Legs during Opiate Withdrawal
• SSRI/Tramadol Withdrawal: Coping with the Brain Zaps
• Is Ultra Rapid Opiate Detox an Option for Tramadol?

Drug abuse test: do you have a substance use disorder? Well, if you’re not sure, answer the following 2 questions honestly and find out – 92.3% of people that can answer no to both questions do not have a problem.

• Need Couples Counseling? Test Your Relationship
• Sex Addiction Self Test
• Binge Eating Disorder - Self Test
• Teen Marijuana Addiction Self Test
• Co-Occurring Disorders – A Treatment Matching Guide

Can you get addicted to marijuana? Many dispute its existence but experts say marijuana addiction is very real. Read the supporting evidence and then decide for yourself.

• Quitting Marijuana: Learn Coping Skills to Improve Your Odds
• Stopping Marijuana, 7 Common Obstacles
• How to Set a Marijuana Quit Date
• Bored? Replace Cannabis with These 50 Activities
• Marijuana Caused Infertility

Withdrawal symptoms don't tell the whole story. Learn why persistent cravings make heroin so tough to quit.

• Heroin Harm Reduction Advice: A User Guide
• Heroin Detox and Withdrawal Advice
• Heroin Addiction Treatment - The Five Methods
• Heroin Addiction in the Family - Supporting Change
• Suboxone: How Long Does Treatment Take?

Learn how gradual and imperceptible changes to the brain’s structure and function lead people steadily from recreational use to heavier use to addiction.

• Cocaine and Suboxone or Methadone Treatment
• Cocaine Addiction and Withdrawal Severity Test
• Cocaine Cravings and Withdrawal Timeline
• Alcoholism: A Timeline for Cognitive Recovery
• Stress Damages Memory – How to Improve It

Tips for controlling chronic pain while tapering off Vicodin, such as: an example tapering schedule, experts that can help, alternate forms of analgesia, helpful lifestyle changes and more.

• Should You Take Addictive Pain Pills?
• Ease Opiate Withdrawals with Passionflower
• Self Test: Pain and Quality of Life
• Use Opioids? Be Sure You Can Answer These 10 Questions
• Prescription Opiate Detox

Learn what increases your risk of Ambien addiction, the particular dangers of use and how to overcome both Ambien dependence and addiction.

• Ambien Addiction: Treatment and Tapering
• Dangers of Benzos on Suboxone/Methadone

Wondering about your use of Ativan (lorazepam) or any other benzodiazepine? Well then, take this 2 minute benzodiazepine addiction self test and find out if you have an addiction, and if so, how serious it is.

• Benzo Tapering: CBT Increases Odds of Success
• Benzodiazepines – 7 Great Reasons to Stop Now
• Benzo Withdrawal: A Guide to Tapering Success
• 11 Secrets to a Successful Benzodiazepine Tapering
• Xanax Withdrawal Symptoms

Is MDMA addictive? Does it actually do you long term harm? How do you know if you have a problem? Read on to find the answers to these questions and more.

• What’s in That Pill? Club Drug Adulterants
• Trauma Therapy Research: MDMA for PTSD
• Ecstasy Detox

Find out how the physical, psychological and cognitive consequences of long-term meth use make quitting so challenging, and how addiction treatment can help you to compensate and stay clean for long enough to give your body and mind a chance to heal.

• Crystal Meth Detox: A How-To Guide
• Effective Meth Addiction Treatment
• Keeping Teens Safe from Meth
• Meth Cravings and Meth Withdrawal Timeline
• The Matrix Model: Intensive Outpatient Treatment

Do you smoke marijuana? Want to know how your habit compares to the average American’s? Find out your percentile ranking here.

• Marijuana Harm Reduction: 6 Rules to Follow
• Marijuana Addiction: Your Treatment Options
• Marijuana Harm Reduction: 20 Tips for Cutting Down
• Medical Marijuana: A Guide to Use without Abuse
• Conscious Living: Do Weed and Alcohol Fit In?

Thinking about giving up marijuana but not sure you’re ready to take the plunge? Well, here are 70 benefits of quitting – all first-hand accounts from previously heavy users about how life changes for the better once you don’t need to get high all the time.

• Quitting Marijuana: Measuring Cognitive Gains
• 10 Steps to Quitting Marijuana
• 15 Signs of Marijuana Use (for Parents)
• Marijuana, How Is It Smoked?
• Teens and Marijuana = Thinking Problems in Adults