If someone you love enters a professional alcohol or drug rehab program, chances are you are dealing with a lot of questions and concerns about what to expect. You may also have some misconceptions about how treatment works. This article may answer some of your questions. Read more...More Information:
Even if you don't think marijuana is bad for your health and you believe it should be legalized, smoking weed can cause problems in other areas of your life. Has smoking marijuana gotten to the point in your life where it is causing you problems? Take the marijuana problem screening quiz to find out. Read more...More About Marijuana:
Think your teen is too young to start experimenting with prescription drugs? You may have to rethink that position if a new study is any indication. Researchers have found the age teens begin first use of prescription pain relievers is earlier that first expected.Previously, it was believed that their final year in high school was the time most adolescents began their first use of prescription drugs, but a new survey tells a different story.
If exercise can help people in residential treatment facilities and subjects in scientific studies, it can benefit anyone trying to quit drinking and drugging or striving to maintain abstinence. You don't have to become a world-class athlete to enjoy the benefits of exercise as part of your recovery. Read more...Related Information:
Have you ever participated in a family intervention with a loved one who had a drug or alcohol problem? If so, please share your experience with other visitors to the Alcoholism / Substance Abuse site. What prompted you to conduct the intervention? Did the person decide to seek help? Or did they continue to deny that they had a problem? Share your story....More:
If someone is arrested for drunk driving, most states make the assumption that the person has a drinking problem. Even after the first drunk driving offense, most states mandate alcohol evaluation, education and treatment for the offender before restoring driving privileges. How does this work? What steps are required?More Information:
Some states refer to drunken driving as DUI. Other states call it DWI while others call it OWI. Some states use both terms, distinquishing between different kinds of drunk driving offenses. So what is the difference? Is there a difference? Read more...More About Drunk Driving:
