Depression Treatment

 
News stories have been reporting an alarming situation among women in the United States and Great Britain. Reports say that females are attempting to use alcohol as a weight loss method. They will skip a meal and have a few drinks of alcohol in place of it with the idea that it will help […]

Many people go the internet as their first source for getting medical and health information. This includes a large number of individuals who go online to research alcoholism and find out whether or not they might have a drinking problem. Some organizations are now taking advantage of this by offering brief motivational interventions online […]

People whose lives have been plagued with an alcohol or drug addiction usually have other problematic issues to deal with as well. One of the most common is mental illness. There are more than four million people in the United States who suffer from alcoholism or drug addiction and a mental illness at […]

Chronic relapse is when a person with an addiction repeats a cycle of quitting and going back to the drugs or alcohol. This is an unfortunately common problem, with an average of half of patients going back to heavy use and 90% of patients going back to light use after leaving addiction treatment. […]