You have an addiction to Drugs and Alcohol. It’s an almost impossible thing to admit to yourself and the people you love. It is even harder to seek out addiction recovery treatment like medical detox or going to a drug and alcohol rehab facility. But you’ve acknowledged your addiction and you’ve taken the steps to get ... Read More
Treatment for Sedative Addiction
Sedatives are drugs designed to depress or slow down the central nervous system. These can include medicine for treating anxiety, seizures, insomnia, or epilepsy. Drugs include Benzodiazepines, Barbiturates, and in some people's opinion even alcohol. Use of these drugs has the potential for dependency and serious ... Read More
Gambling Addiction & The Sunk Cost Fallacy
While much of the mechanics of substance addiction occur behind the scenes, in the interactions of biology and chemistry within a person’s body, gambling addiction is a behavior that is acted out externally. As a result, there are more quantifiable facts observable than with most addiction disorders. Profiting ... Read More
Marilyn Monroe’s Terminal Struggle with Addiction Part 2
Read Part 1 Here Monroe escaped the cruelty of a harsh upbringing and scored a gig as a contract actor at Fox in the 1950’s. She soon skyrocketed to fame as a sex symbol and movie star. However Monroe suffered from insomnia, depression, and anxiety. Her complicated and painful experiences as a child stayed with her ... Read More
Marilyn Monroe’s Terminal Struggle with Addiction Part 1
Marilyn Monroe has become more than just a legend. She’s a beauty icon, a movie star myth, almost a religious symbol to men and women alike. Monroe’s fan base is vast and enduring. They look to her life and art for inspiration: her struggles with poverty, her misfortunate start in the system where she moved in and ... Read More
Simon Pegg Battled With Alcohol In Secret During “Mission: Impossible” And Other Films
Simon Pegg is a great actor, in more ways than one. Battling with depression since he was 18, Pegg self-medicated through alcohol abuse, which constantly loomed in the background during his entire film career. He said it was particularly bad during Mission: Impossible III, his first film in the movie franchise. ... Read More
Mississippi Man Uses Life Experience in Drugs And Prison To Rehabilitate Leaving Convicts
Benny Ivey had a hard life growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, with parents who progressed from one hard drug to harder drugs. He lived in a household that focused on feeding those addictions. Ivey’s parents would direct him to commit crimes to pay for meth and other drugs, which he also began to take part in abusing. ... Read More
Xanax and Opioids Prove Deadly and Popular in Illinois
The deathly combination of opioids and benzodiazepines, the class of drugs Xanax, Valium and other drugs fall under, has proven to be popular with partygoers. Where once heroin or ecstasy would have been reigning supreme, partiers are instead turning to prescriptions with relaxing effects. However, Cook County, IL, ... Read More
