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We’ve long known that alcohol is bad for your brain. There are temporary impairments like slurred speech, loss of coordination and balance, poor judgment, and blackouts…
Category: Alcohol Addiction
Why Alcohol Addiction is Even More Dangerous for Women
While it’s true alcohol addiction affects more men than women, women make up about a third of problem drinkers. That’s a lot of people. What’s more, the number of women with alcohol use disorder appears to be growing…
How to Make Better Decisions in Addiction Recovery
Brain scans show that in people who have struggled with addiction for a long time, the part of your brain responsible for rational thinking becomes cut off from the part of your brain responsible for gratification…
What Are the Early Risk Factors for Addiction?
While anyone can develop an addiction under the right circumstances, some people are more vulnerable to developing an addiction for several different reasons….
Why Relapse Happens Before the First Drink
You might hear in recovery “relapse happens before the first drink”. Relapse happening before the first drink refers to the headspace which is created before taking the first drink…
Why Being Sick is Uncomfortable During Sobriety
Early sobriety presents a number of challenges such as withdrawal symptoms, escaping triggers, and finding the urge not to pick up that drug or drink anymore. Another challenge that can come during sobriety is getting sick. Click here to learn more now….
How to Find 12 Step Meetings When Traveling
While addiction recovery should be your primary focus, you are still allowed to live your life and have sober fun. Having a vacation when you are in early recovery does not give you an excuse to be on vacation from your recovery. There are many ways you find 12 step meetings all over the world while you are traveling….
5 Ways to Let Yourself Grieve the Loss of Drugs and Alcohol
When drugs and alcohol become a major factor in your life, the sudden absense of those coping mechanisms can cause a fair amount of grief and a sense of loss. Here are 5 ways to cope with this change….
Should Everyone Be Working The 12 Steps in Recovery?
The 12 steps are a recovery programme that focuses on the necessary steps a person must follow to come to terms with addiction and beat it for good….
Misconceptions About 12 Step Programs Can Get in The Way of Their Impact
Twelve step recovery programs are tried and true methods of addiction treatment but misconceptions about the method can prevent a patient from taking full advantage of its benefits….
Twelve Addiction Triggers of Christmas
Christmas is a difficult time for people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. Addiction therapist Chris Burn shares his list of Christmas triggers and how to cope with them….
Alcohol Withdrawal and Delirium Tremens
Prof. Jonathan Chick describes the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Read more on the effects of heavy consumption of alcohol and the brain chemistry behind it….
How to Help a Loved One | Alcohol | AlAnon
Read a personal story of how to get help if you are affected by someone else’s drinking. Alanon is a fellowship of friends and families of alcoholics….
Sports and Alcohol Addiction: An Unlikely Link
The pressure of performance can make sportsmen turn to drugs and alcohol as a relief. Binge drinking is accepted in many sporting communities….
You don’t need to be Religious for 12 Step Treatment
In order to achieve long term abstinence, people need a sense of purpose. You don’t have to be religious to participate in the 12 Step programme or fellowships like AA….
What David Carr Taught Us About Addiction Recovery
New York Times journalist David Carr died on 12th of February 2015, age 58. Here’s what we can learn from his experience of addiction to drugs and recovery….
Alcohol interferes with sleep
Alcohol interferes with the brain’s built-in system for regulating sleep, and this can result in insomnia, according to new research….
How to Navigate your First Sober Christmas
Christmas can be a risk of relapse for people who are just out of rehab or are in early recovery. Read addiction advice on staying sober for Christmas….
Saying Goodbye to Addiction
Anonymous letter by former patient in addiction recovery presents alcohol as a seductive, faithless partner & shows how alcoholics struggle to get free of it….
Alcohol Detox – Delays for NHS Patients
New study finds a number of problems within Scotland’s alcohol treatment services. Several addiction experts at Castle Craig rehab centre comment. Read more….
How do women react to AA?
New study looks at the different ways that men and women stay abstinent in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Read more here….
What are the 12 Steps of addiction recovery?
The 12 Steps are a therapy programme which can assist alcoholics and drug addicts to live a full and meaningful life without the use of drugs and alcohol….
Helping alcohol & drug addicts in Romania
Castle Craig Hospital launched a new website in Romanian, to compensate for the lack of addiction treatment information and fight high stigma against addicts….
The Blessing of Alcoholism by Dr. Scott Peck
The Road Less Travelled by Dr. Scott Peck is about the role of spirituality in addiction therapy, which was widely ignored by psychiatry at the time of publication….
Alcohol, Women & Breast Cancer Rates in Scotland
One in five Scottish breast cancer cases is caused by alcohol. There is no ‘safe’ limit for women to avoid the risk. Read more….
