Addiction in Family

When families are dealing with a loved one who is locked into addiction they naturally want to know how long the insanity is going to last before the person decides [...]

On a fairly regular basis doctors fail to identify people with alcohol use disorders. This failure is often due to simply not asking the right questions. The consequences of such [...]

To understand the disease of addiction it is important to understand the underlying causes of it, how it develops, what are the symptoms &  the behaviors that accompany it. Many [...]

In their book: “It’s So Hard to Love You”,  Bill Klatte and Kate Thompson provide us with some ideas as to how to “let go” in a loving way.  Some [...]

Stress Stress is a fact of daily life and is the result of both the good and bad things that happen. Too much stress can cause serious health concerns, but [...]

Looking at Addictions Family Therapy through an Existential Lens: The idea of treating family members and loved ones who have been impacted by other people’s addictions is a relatively new [...]

Shame Shame, as the conductor of the affective orchestra in humans, is a powerful, elusive and tricky emotion that can protect or destroy the organism – depending on the circumstances. [...]

Many times people have questions about Enabling. It is important to understand that enabling doesn’t actually  come from the person who is doing the enabling.  In actuality it is a  [...]

Physical dependency on alcohol develops following a sustained period of daily heavy drinking. This can result in the development of an alcohol withdrawal syndrome, with such symptoms as tremulousness (the [...]

Living and dealing with a drug addict can be devastating. There’s no easy way to find out, no way to soften the blow. Deciding how to proceed with your friendship [...]

When families are dealing with a loved one who is locked into addiction they naturally want to know how long the insanity is going to last before the person decides [...]

The concept of looking at family members in the etiology and maintenance of psychoactive substance use disorders dates back to the early 1930s, when social workers in state hospitals reported [...]