Category Archives: Addiction

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Risk Factors for Addiction

Addiction to substances can be influenced by a variety of elements. Addiction affects people in many different ways, some of which are life-threatening. For example, people who suffer from heroin addiction risk damaging nearly every organ in their body, including heart and brain damage amongst others. Accidental drug overdose is a leading cause of death among persons under the age...

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Effects of gambling on family

How Gambling Addiction Affects the Family Unit

Addiction negatively impacts a person’s life in many ways. These consequences can be emotional, physical, and/or social. However, the person who is abusing a substance isn’t the only one who suffers. Drugs and alcohol aren’t the only addictions that exist. When it comes to the effects of compulsive gambling on family members there are serious consequences to consider.  A person...

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The 6 Ways Drug Addiction Affects The Family The Most

A drug addict has one primary focus - where their next “fix” is going to come from and when that fix will take place. The drug user’s lack of self-respect, and lack of respect for those around them, become evident very quickly. The drugs become a priority over everything else in their lives. Lifetime Recovery, located in Mullica Hill, New...

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Therapist explaining about addiction triggers

Dealing With Addiction Triggers? Try These Coping Skills

Encountering addiction triggers on the road to recovery is inevitable. This is even true for individuals that have maintained their sobriety long-term after addiction treatment. Although there are many ways to handle addiction triggers, healthy coping skills are going to be important for growth.  The reality is that learning how to deal with triggers, and being able to do so...

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The Psychology of Gambling

Problems with gambling can happen to anyone from any walk of life. Gambling goes from a fun, harmless game to an unhealthy obsession that can have serious consequences. It doesn’t matter if you’re betting on sports, roulette, poker, scratch-off tickets, or slots—in a casino, at the track, or online.  A gambling problem can: harm relationships interfere with work lead to...

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