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Women with substance abuse have unique challenges to face than their counter parts with the same condition. Say for example pregnant woman find it struggle some to quit addiction because of severe withdrawal symptoms despite knowing the fact that they would end up troubling or losing their future child. Due to the sociological circumstances, most […]

Drug abuse in teens is caused by a number of factors that include individual, family, genetic, and social causes apart from bad parenting. Studies on teenagers who are similar in age and gender reveal that parental influence is more profound than that of peers in use of alcohol and other drugs. On the contrary, teenagers […]

Staying undetected would be the single most cumbersome task for the female drug addicts especially, during the early stages of addiction to avoid exposure to stigma and discrimination in the society. At the same time, their addiction tends to progress at an exponential rate by the day causing them to strive even harder to conceal […]

The plight of a family with alcohol and drug addiction suffers effects beyond actual addiction. To begin with, their homes become battle grounds, children become less supportive, siblings become rivals and friends give up on them. Eventually, addiction touches the lives of all the loved ones of the addict be it their spouse, parent, child […]

Co-dependency is the most painful disorder of loving someone so much so that co-dependents often forfeit their innate ability to create their own life in an attempt to control their loved ones.  This behaviour is learned and emotional/behavioural condition that comes from childhood, when the co-dependent learns that there may be terrible consequences from failing […]