When you take opioids regularly, there are changes in your brain and your nervous system, so you have to continue taking opioids just to feel normal. In addition, your body continues to change, adapting its own reactions, and needs more and more drugs just to get through the day. It is no wonder that opioid...

It’s not a secret that addiction rehab centres have a limited success rate inpatient treatment and this is largely due to “treatment” programmes NOT dealing with the core issues in patients that drive their addictions. There is little evidence to suggest that the 12 step program of addiction treatment can even be considered an addiction...

Helping Yourself on the Road to Recovery for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For all too many addicts, returning from addiction means coping with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You may be having a hard time readjusting to life away from drugs/alcohol. Or you may constantly be feeling on edge, emotionally numb and disconnected, or close...

Cape Town Addiction Rehabs brining in Americans

Hundreds of years ago, tobacco was introduced in Europe as a medicinal “cure-all”. It was later observed that the hazards of tobacco outweighed the claimed benefits, but political, economic and elitist influences weakened the arguments against it. Over time tobacco became the leading addictive recreational drug and the biggest preventable killer in the world. The...