What is Drunkorexia?
As a slang, non-medical term, Drunkorexia refers to someone who restricts food calories to make room for alcoholic drink calories. (Drunk-drinking alcohol, (ano)rexia-restricting food/calories)
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.
5 Ways to Restore Self-Esteem After Addiction
The relationship between low self-esteem and addiction has been established for decades. In the 1970s, drug users, especially women, were found to have low self-esteem. Low Self-Esteem and Addiction Low self-esteem and addiction go hand in hand. At first, using alcohol or drugs it will increase your self-confidence and you will be less concerned with . . . . Continue Reading
Addiction and Sex Workers
Unfortunately addiction can lead to sex working or in other words prostitution, hooking, stripping etc. Some sex workers use drugs to numb themselves in order to continue working. Others turn to sex working as a last resort to score drug money for an ongoing drug addiction
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.
Women and Prescription Drug Abuse
But why are so many women involved with prescription drug abuse? Women and their fondness for prescription drugs actually dates back to the 1960s and 70s
Addiction and Low Self-Esteem
Addiction and Low Self-Esteem One of the things that plagued me when I first began getting treatment for my addiction was low self-esteem. I had low self-esteem when it came to pretty much everything in my life. I had low self-esteem when it came to what I thought I was capable of, of whether or . . . . Continue Reading
Top 5 Reasons Women Relapse
For a long time addiction was considered a man’s disease. Today it is well known that addiction affects women too. Women have different reasons than men for using drugs and tend to become addicted faster and after using smaller amounts of drugs than their male counterparts. Reasons women relapse are different as well. Here are . . . . Continue Reading
How Trauma Can Lead to Substance Abuse
More and more research confirms that the more stressful your childhood experiences—and the more different your types of stress—the greater your odds of developing problems with substance abuse. This seems almost common sense because, a lot of times, people seek out drugs as a way to “forget” and numb their emotional pain. But . . . . Continue Reading
Advantages of Women’s Treatment Centers
There have been numerous studies done over the years that determine all the ways women are different than men and vice versa. For instance, some studies ask the question; do women heal differently than men? Do women cope differently, better or worse than men? Is there a difference in the recovery process for women compared . . . . Continue Reading