It is also when the door to faith opens. A heavy door, opening it requires more than just the addict's efforts. It requires the help of people familiar with early recovery essentials: detoxification, abstinence and ...

The truth is that alcohol treatment centers, especially in conjunction with twelve-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, have proven the most effective weapons in the fight against alcoholism and addiction yet devised. It's not that they ...

According to The Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, addiction is defined as follows: "...the condition of taking a drug habitually and being unable to give it up without incurring adverse effects." Nothing more, ...

The alcoholic starts with small lies: I only had a couple; the meeting ran overtime. The lies then progress to deceptive behaviors: hiding bottles in closets, even toilets; breaking appointments with false excuses. As those ...

Three theories purport to explain alcoholism: Genetic, defining it as a chromosomal predisposition; Sociological, defining it as a product of social influences; and Psychological, defining it as a personality predisposition. Effective alcohol rehabilitation takes each ...