Drug addiction is a clinical condition, and because it generates both physiological and mental dependencies, it’s not something that a person can recover from through willpower on its own. Having said that, it is a treatable disorder, and with assistance it is practical for users to break away from the dependency. It will take lots of work, and it’s really a hard, and occasionally painful, process, but the appropriate treatment can do plenty of good for a number of people. [...]
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Do you find it difficult to get nicotine out of your system? Nicotine, after all, can be very addictive. Nicotine may not be illegal but it compares with dangerous drugs like cocaine and heroin in terms of addictiveness. [...] For an addict in recovery, there is nothing more discouraging than the length of time waiting for progress in addiction recovery. It seems to take forever. One-on-one counseling and group therapy are among some of the experiences one would have experienced in treatment. Those experiences should continue throughout your addiction and recovery process, the longer the better. [...] This volume provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of the Therapeutic Community (TC) theory and its practical “whole person” approach to the treatment of substance abuse disorders and related problems. [...] Using psychoanalysis to look at the depiction of drug addiction in film. This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on 14 January 2009. There may not be an obvious connection between Frank Sinatra, Leonardo DiCaprio and psychiatry, but a series of screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London hopes to use [...] |
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