Addiction affects every family differently, depending on how persistent the addiction is, which family member struggles with addiction, and whether or not these families have external social support. Addiction introduces increased amounts of stress, which affects many different areas of family life and many different family members. Social, psychological, and emotional issues caused by addiction …
Substance abuse prevention can be dealt with at any stage during and after the recovery process. Hopefully, as people will find out, substance abuse prevention and sober living skills are taught at virtually every good rehabilitation center. Part of the importance of such prevention methods, however, is that they can also be applied even before …
Yes, it is possible to set and maintain personal boundaries in a codependent relationship, but it takes practice. Here’s why: Our values and needs become blurred and enmeshed in codependency; we don’t know where we end and the other person begins. In codependency, we focus on how someone else can meet our needs rather than focusing …
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Why Is Oxy so Addictive? Oxycodone changes the way we detect and process physical pain. Imagine you’re a small child, and you wedge your finger into a light socket and immediately feel an intense, unpleasant shock travel from your fingertip up through your shoulder. You retract your hand instantly and begin to cry. When our …