How to Stop Alcohol Cravings: Tips and Treatment Options

How to Stop Alcohol Cravings: Tips and Treatment Options

Alcohol cravings can manifest in physical and mental symptoms and are a common struggle when trying to stop drinking. That’s especially true if you drink frequently or struggle with addiction. Cravings are a big concern since they’re a common cause of relapse during alcohol addiction treatment. One study in 2018 analyzed 34 patients who were…

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How to Detox Liver and Kidneys

Cleansing your liver of alcohol is one of the essential steps in recovering from alcoholism, excessive alcohol consumptions or prolonged alcohol abuse. The liver is critically involved in all metabolic processes in the body. It breaks down old blood cells, promotes blood clotting, breaks down fats into energy, and removes toxins from the body. Alcohol…

The 10 Most Dangerous Drugs in America

70 million Americans admit to the regular use of mind-altering drugs. 100 people overdose every single day, leading to an estimated 64,000 overdose deaths in 2016 alone.  The biggest increases in these deaths occurred with fentanyl and synthetic opioids, which caused 20,000 of the fatalities. Drug abuse includes not just illegal but legal substances and…

A Guide to Drug Paraphernalia for Parents

Young adults use several bizarre ways to conceal and stash their drugs so they can go unnoticed by parents, teachers, and caregivers. You have to be familiar with the drug paraphernalia, often hidden in the bedroom, car, backpack or the purse, to learn of your child’s drug use. Most parents have no clue what other…

Eminem: A Rocky Road to Recovery

Addiction doesn’t always involve illicit street drugs such as heroin or crack. Often, the pills prescribed by a doctor can be just as disabling over time. They can also be even more dangerous because the one addicted to them may not be able to admit their addiction when it doesn’t involve the commonly thought about…

How to Help an Addict Who Doesn’t Want Help

Drug abuse in the United States is on the rise. In fact last year, there were 64,000 killed from illegal drugs like heroin and Crystal meth and legal drugs like alcohol and prescription drugs. It is an epidemic that many addicts don’t even realize that they are a part of. They think they can stop…