"Guilt": The Third Barrier to Successful Recovery

The third and final barrier to recovery from addiction is guilt. Guilt acts as another strap in the harness that keeps the addict trapped in his addiction.

An addict is filled with guilt. He feels guilty because he has lost his integrity; he has become a dishonest person and consequently loses his self-esteem. For any

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"Depression": The Second Barrier to Successful Recover        

Depression is another factor that keeps an addict harnessed in his addiction Depression is the source of a constant and significant amount of discomfort that prompts continued use. It is also the second major barrier to successful recovery for those seeking help

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If you have been following this series of articles, you have learned how opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin made their way into America's channels of commerce. In time, each substance acquired an expanding customer base, anchored by the addictiveness of the drug. In the Twentieth Century, the popularity of cocaine in its various forms would prove to reach much deeper and farther than

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There is volumes of information and science avaialbe on the subject of drug addictions its causes and cures.  There are multiple philososphies on how addiction comes into being and how to overcome it.  For those addicted to drugs it gets to be pretty hard to decide what program and what addicition philosophy to buy into when looking for help.  So how does one steer through the massive amount of

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Seeking to remove unapproved prescription drugs from the market place, the Food and Drug Administartation on March 31st ordered nine companies to stop manufacturing narcotics whose theraputic claims have not been proved. 

The FDA's warning letter notified the companies they may be subject to legal action if they do not stop manufacturing and distributing "prescription unapproved products"that

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If you have been struggeling with an alcohol problem or have fallen into prescription pain killer or other prescription med abuse.  If you had a heroin problem and are now trapped with a methadone habit or your abusing methamphetamins, cocaine or any drug for that matter and you have made it through the holidays the time to get help is now.

Maybe you have never been through rehab before or maybe

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I think most people will agree that the media has a great influence over us and  how it molds the way we act and feel about many issues.

Take the subject of drug addcition.  Going back to President Lyndon Baines Johnson every president since has had their administrative plan of attack and subsquent war on the drug problem.  Despite the billions and billions of dollars that the government has

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If you are a parent of a teenager(s), I strongly suggest you read this year's "Back-To-School-Survey", sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, (CASA) at Columbia University (http://www.casacolumbia.org/). 

This survey sends a pretty strong message to parents of teens to wake up and smell the coffee in regard to your children and their chances of becommig drug abusers in

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After 30 plus years of working in the drug and alcohol rehabilitation and prevention field I thought that there wasn't much that could shock me anymore on the subject.  Well I was way wrong.   I just finished reading the 13th Annual "back-to-school survey" entitled The National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse- Teens and Parents, conducted by the folks at the National Center on

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Heroin addiction presents a unique set of cirrcumstances for an individual who choses to travel that road.   An addicts daily living gets divided into to two categories.  Living and acting out life on heroin or struggeling to function in life while you are sick from not being on heroin trying to get well again by acquiring more of the drug.  Which life style you will expereince in the coming day

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