April 2024

It’s normal to wish for a special medicine or treatment to remove addiction from your life forever. You may even hear some company or other people claiming to have finally created or found a cure, but the reality just doesn’t follow. Addiction is treatable, and with the right support you can absolutely be able to build […]

Addiction will often play out in stages. The stages of addiction are: There is no single reason why people and usually teenagers use drugs or alcohol. But here are some of the core issues and influences behind the behaviour of teenage drug and alcohol use. It’s important that parents, understand these reasons and talk to

All types of addiction are treatable. The best plans are comprehensive, as addiction often affects many areas of life. Common therapies include: People are different, and some individuals will have different circumstances, needs and wants from others. Fighting addiction can require a combination or all of the following. Here are the tangible steps that one

Different substances and behaviours have different effects on a person’s health. Serious complications can cause health concerns or social situations to result in the end of a life. Addiction is a complicated disease involving an inability to stop taking a substance or carrying out a particularly damaging behaviour. It can lead to a range of

Pleasure or euphoria-the high from drugs-is still poorly understood, but it probably involves surges of chemical signalling compounds including the body’s natural opioids (endorphins) and other neurotransmitters (like dopamine) in parts of the basal ganglia (the brain reward circuit). When some drugs are taken, they can cause surges of these neurotransmitters much greater than the

Efforts to reduce or delay exposure of drugs and alcohol to children may prevent a wide range of adult health problems and should not be restricted to adolescents who are already at risk. Exposure to alcohol and illicit drugs during early adolescence has been associated with poor outcomes in adulthood. However, many adolescents with exposure to these substances also have a history

Our genetic structure determines all our human traits. Our DNA dictates our physical characteristics (such as hair colour) and also our behavioural characteristics (such as anger). These genes are passed on to us by our parents. There can be a genetic predisposition to substance abuse. In fact, good worldwide research suggests that “at least half