Alcohol Drug Use : Relapse and Recovery.

When traditional methods are used to treat alcohol and drug addiction, the only indicator of success, for both the addict and the program is whether or not the addict has a relapse.  If someone who has used alcohol, and in recovery, goes on a week-long bender, chances are that they will feel a failure, that...

Drug Alcohol Addiction Canada – Holistic Treatment Programs.

In 2006 it was reported that drug and alcohol abuse was costing Canada around $40 billion a year. We still have a drug alcohol problem so how was the money spent.  The traditional approach to alcohol abuse and drug rehabilitation is to take control of the addict, his life and set him up in a supportive...

Addiction Causes: Fate or Choice?

Some people take a rather gloomy view about the causes of addiction. Many, including the medical profession claim addiction to be a disease that you get, often inherited genetically. If this was true then people would randomly catch the disease or inherit the genes and have no choice but to be an...

Drug Use in Canada – Use holistic rehab – to become drug free.

According to the 2009 statistics from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA-CCLAT) on drug use in Canada, around 10% of 15 year olds and 26% of young people are using or have tried cannabis. Around 7% of adults have used cannabis. Cannabis is used more by males than by females.  With the harder drugs...

Drug Addiction: Orexin, Anxiety and Sleep

Adverse side effects of amphetamine use can be hyperarousal and feelings of anxiety leading to paranoia and panic attacks. Current medical research has identified the brain peptide orexin as having a role in conditions of hyperarousal of the brain such as are caused by amphetamine use. Panic attacks and...

Nutrition and Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Addiction.

There has in the past been little importance placed on good nutrition in helping people to overcome addiction. This is because addiction has been regarded by the medical profession, and the general public informed that addiction is a disease for which there is no cure, which must be relieved by drugs and...

LSD Psilocybin and PCP – Try Holistic Therapy !

There are current moves within the medical profession to start prescribing LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide) to help people with terminal or life threatening illness overcome anxiety. LSD was originally discovered and investigated by Hofmann in the 1940′s. Lysergic acid is found in fungi which grow on...

Alcohol Effects: Mood and Depression.

Alcohol effects are mainly as a result of the ethanol alcohol component of alcoholic drinks. Ethanol is highly toxic to all organs of the body and in particular the stomach lining and the liver. As a toxin, the liver is able to remove ethanol by producing alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and usually around 90% of...

Alcohol Causes Homelessness –Best Rehab for Addiction to Alcohol.

 The image of a homeless alcohol addict, sleeping under a pile of newspapers, on a park bench at night is for many fact of life. Secure places for homeless alcohol addicts to sleep at night are limited. The reality is that some who are addicted to alcohol do not want the confines of safe shelter. They make...

Heroin Addicts in British Columbia, Canada.

Heroin addicts in British Columbia are dealt with by the government using a carrots and sticks approach. In addition to the availability of opioid substitute programs, such as buprenorphine or methadone for heroin addiction, there have been trials in Vancouver with providing heroin to users in a clinical...