It’s legal, but can you handle it? Or does weed handle you? While we’re all celebrating legalization our eyes are diverted from current affairs like the increases in fuel, state appropriation of land without compensation. ”The peaceful majority are irrelevant” The Act 2008
Questions to ask when choosing a treatment program: Let us help you +27 823588661 Tranquil peaceful waterfalls – blissful SerenityDoes the program use treatments backed by scientific evidence? Effective programs usually combine medical and behavioral treatments. Does the program tailor treatment to the needs of each patient? No single treatment is right for everyone. Does
https://ewn.co.za/2018/09/17/jhb-crime-stats-over- JOHANNESBURG – The City of Johannesburg has released its own crime statistics for the first time with the number of people arrested for drunk driving this year currently sitting at more than 7,000. This is a reduction compared to the nearly 9,000 people handcuffed during the same period between January and August last year.
There are many support structures for people in recovery. We suggest that the best way to start a day is by reading approved recovery literature. It’s a lovely way to set the intention for the day ahead. Here are some of the day’s readings which explore daily challenges. There are five suggested “Pillars” which help
Empathetic understanding is a powerful response process for therapists when working with addicts and alcoholics. How do we know when we’re getting it right? Our patients develop feelings of freedom and personal power. Because they find themselves safe from criticism or admonishment, they are stimulated to explore and think more deeply and expansively. It’s a
There’s a very fine line between using and enjoying drugs and alcohol, and not being able to live without drugs and alcohol. Let me be perfectly clear here; alcohol is a drug in liquid form. It’s especially lethal being legal and popular. Today I took a call on a drug addiction help line. A 32
It’s Monday morning. This is the tell tale day when problem drinkers emerge. Nursing a mother of all hangovers and behaving badly? Grumpy? Sick? Over-tired? Asking you or someone else to call in sick at work?
10 years ago it was impossible for me to imagine that I would be alive today. Severe anxiety, depression, borderline pd, locked in my isolation. My private, secretive personal hell with a hopeless addiction to everything that “helped me to” escape life. Words can’t really explain how fractured my mind was, perhaps pictures can. I
“I found, to overcome addiction, you have to learn how to control your thoughts because they do influence our feelings, & feelings do impact our actions. What we think, we do, or can become, is a very real principle. How we deal with all the random, tempting, crazy thoughts that engulf the mind, that bring
