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For Many Drug Addicts, Recovery Typically Involves Omega 3 Fish Oil

Consuming a diet chock full o’ nutrients has always been important, but now clinical research demonstrates that there might be a connection between drug abuse and dietary insufficiencies. Carolyn Reuben, a nutrition authority (and the executive director of the Community Addiction Recovery Association in Sacramento, CA) says that our bodies can react to certain dietary deficiencies in a way that can in the end contribute to mood disorders and/or addiction. [...]

Drug Addiction Treatment

One in three people in Britain will have tried illegal drugs at one point or another, it is thought. Though there is continual discussion about the dangers of drugs and what classification they should be, it is quite obvious that some people find themselves in legal or financial trouble, and doing damage to their physical or psychological health because of a drug addiction. Many people who take different types of drugs in different circumstances will each need different types of drug addiction treatment. [...]

Give Drug Users A Break

Mark Easton’s article regarding the “World Drugs Report 2009″ quotes the report’s author, Antonio Maria Costa.

His argument sets up what some might argue is a bogus choice between total legalisation or tough criminal sanctions. But he makes it with conviction:

“Why unleash a drug epidemic in the developing world for the sake of [...]

Housewives Hooked on Cocaine

Women are statistically at the same level as men in the abuse of cocaine, according to this Daily Mail article [...]

Why is Honesty the Best Policy?

Why is honesty the best policy? This article looks at the pros and cons and will help people in recovery (and in life) to progress and achieve self growth. [...]

Drug addicts playing havoc with family life

Addiction is no respecter of class or creed as this piece from the Saudi Gazeet online reports [...]

What Goes Around Comes Around

The importance of maxims to live by, cannot be understated for those in recovery. What goes around comes around is an important maxim to grasp. [...]

Drug addicts face losing benefits

Drug addicts risk losing their benefits according to this BBC report [...]

Abstinence

Saying ‘abstinence’ to a recovering addict is like saying ‘celibacy’ to a hot blooded male. In my years working on the Ovis Farm Project, the concept of Abstinence was one of the difficult principles to get across. It wasn’t that your recovering addict didn’t understand the word, it was just too difficult to see “how it applies to me.” [...]

Am I addicted?

Have you ever wondered? How can you tell? This articles may help you to decide if you are addicted. [...]