How Alcohol and Drugs Affect Fertility
alcohol and drugs can affect your fertility. Though you may not have realized it, drugs including steroids, alcohol, and tobacco, can have a very negative on both the male and female reproductive systems.
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)
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.
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
Kevin Hart Says DUI Arrest is a “Wake Up Call”
In April, the comedian Kevin Hart was arrested for driving while drunk. CNN reported that he was cruising at 90 miles per hour down the freeway, weaving from lane to lane, and narrowly missed running into a gas tanker when he was pulled over. The California Highway Patrol statement on the incident said: “Mr. Hart . . . . Continue Reading
Anthony Bourdain States His Case for Drinking After Drug Addiction
The renowned TV celeb chef Anthony Bourdain famously imbibes in alcoholic beverages at almost every restaurant and food venue he samples for the cameras. Few viewers might guess that he once struggled with heroin addiction given that most in recovery do not indulge in the use of any mind altering substance.
Take What You Need and Leave the Rest: Getting What You Can from AA
There are a number of rules, traditions, “guidelines,” expectations and other characteristics of 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) that are imposed upon those who choose to attend meetings regularly.