Addiction Treatment in New Jersey
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During a time when teens are meant to be attending school dances, enjoying summer vacation, and graduating from high school, they are often instead participating in underage drinking. Teenage drinking can have some serious short-term effects including making the young person sick, making poor choices, accidents and injuries, and engaging in risky sexual behaviors. However, […]
Being a parent involves making an endless amount of judgment calls, from the time your child is born until they grow up and are ready to leave the nest. One of the many decisions that parents have to make has to do with alcohol. Some parents insist on total abstinence while others prefer to allow […]
Step 7 of the 12 steps is the next logical step after accepting one’s character defects exactly as they are (which is no small feat in itself) and then becoming willing to let go of them. Too often, people only want to see the best in themselves, and push the things that they don’t like […]
Graduation from high school or college is a joyous time of culmination and celebration for most students and their families. Nervous energy permeates campuses across the country as young men and women rush to complete their senior projects and pull all-nighters in order to ace their final exams. Emotions run high as nervous seniors count […]
A recent study has revealed the link between child abuse and teen alcoholism. While there are many factors that contribute to addiction and alcoholism, the study shows a strong correlation between certain types of childhood abuse and neglect and alcoholism in teens. Types of Abuse and Neglect When many people think of child abuse, they […]
While anything done to reduce drug use can be a step in the right direction, complete abstinence is considered the safest and most effective strategy during addiction treatment in Princeton Junction, whether your addiction involves alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamine, opioid painkillers, and/or other prescription drugs. Attempts to control use instead of stopping completely are rarely successful […]
Many people use the words addiction and abuse interchangeably, but drug and alcohol addiction and abuse are two different things. Both of them have the potential to affect a person’s life, but the difference is the degree to which they levy that control. A person who with a substance abuse issue still has control over […]
12 step programs were initially created for those struggling with an addiction to alcohol. The first incarnation, AA (Alcoholics Anonymous), utilized the same basic principles and ideas used in the many programs that have followed. AA’s founders found the most effective means in achieving long lasting sobriety through sharing stories, successes and pain with other […]
If you have a loved one who is addicted to drugs or alcohol, then you know that their behavior can be frustrating, unpredictable, and scary. Addiction is so powerful that many people become overwhelmed and the behavior is strictly dictated by their need for their drug of choice. It’s hard for the people around them […]
When users mix heroin and crack they are playing with fire. Heroin and crack cocaine are risky enough when used individually, but they are even more dangerous when they are combined. Mixing the two, one a depressant and one a stimulant, can have very unpredictable results. When the two are combined and used at the […]
