How addiction affects the family
Families where addiction is present are oftentimes painful to live in, which is why those who live with addiction may become traumatized to varying degrees by the experience. Broad swings, from one end of the emotional, psychological and behavioral spectrum to the other, all too often characterize the addicted family system.
Love and Sex Addiction Treatment
Believe it or not love and sex can be addictive. Love and sex can also be destructive. Well, at least socially, love and sex can be destructive. Love and sex can become compulsive just like substance abuse
Women and Methamphetamine
Methamphetamine is a drug that can cause severe problems in the life of anyone who uses it and that includes women. And unfortunately for women, the rates of methamphetamine use are much higher than for other classes of drugs.
Drug Treatment for Mothers
Drug treatment for mothers will help women who have struggled with substance abuse throughout their entire lives finally get back on track by giving them new focus. These mothers, either pregnant or with young children
5 Ways you are Enabling an Addict
Most people don’t want to enable the addict in their life, they only want to help. Yet so many friends and loved ones of the addict end up doing more harm than good by enabling.
Effects of Synthetic Marijuana Mimic Prenatal Disorder
A recent study on synthetic marijuana has found that use of the drug during pregnancy can cause eclampsia and preeclampsia-like conditions in pregnant women. These prenatal disorders get better after delivery, but California researchers note that pregnant women with drug problems do not. The conclusion was made after a baby girl who was born at . . . . Continue Reading
Attorneys General Advocate for Painkiller Warning Label for Pregnant Women
Across the country, more and more babies are born addicted to opiate painkillers, and law makers are working hard to figure out how they can help to deter the problem. In an attempt to educate pregnant women before they take the drugs, 43 attorneys general pooled their efforts in a letter calling for the implementation . . . . Continue Reading
Mom Beats Son’s Heroin Dealer with Bat: Judge Throws the Book at Her
When one woman went to the home of her son’s drug dealer with a baseball bat, she had every intention of using it. She steadfastly declared that this 22-year-old adult was providing her underage son with heroin and when her son was unable to kick his addiction due to the continued provision of heroin thanks . . . . Continue Reading
New Treatment Options Explored for Prenatal Drug Abuse Treatment
When a woman is pregnant and living with an active drug addiction, the first priority is to help her to get her addiction issues under control in a way that preserves the unborn child’s health as much as possible. In a situation where a pregnancy does not exist, the woman’s addiction takes priority. Usually, immediate . . . . Continue Reading
Pregnant? The Long-Term and Short-Term Effects of Prenatal Drug Abuse
Drug use during pregnancy damages lives – the life of the mother, the life of the child, the life of the future caregiver or caregivers if the mother is unable to get her addiction under control and raise her child.