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Your Family: Addiction’s Greatest Casualty
A few weeks ago, as I drove home from a football match, a woman turned her car in front of mine. I didn’t see her until the front end of my car crunched like an accordion into hers. She made a choice, and I paid for it. In a perfect world, only our good choices……
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Alcohol Addiction and EFT
This is a guest blog post written by Aliakbar Shabbir, an integrative health coach at EnergySense Holistics. The views & opinions expressed in any guest post featured on our site are those of the guest author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions & views of DeAddictionCentres.IN as a whole. We are thrilled to have……
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Inhalant Abuse: A Special Lure for Women
Those with addictions to heroin or cocaine must often visit with sneaky drug dealers in dark alleyways, buying their substances furtively and hoping they won’t get caught in the act. People with alcohol addictions can be slightly more open about their use, but they might also be forced to visit corner markets and liquor stores……
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Why Do So Many Clients from Overseas Seek Recovery From Addiction at Hope in India? Find Out!
About 30% of admissions at Hope are from overseas: Sultanate of Oman, Dubai, USA, UK, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Maldives…what makes them travel so far to seek recovery at Hope Trust? Especially when there are so many options in the country of their origin? We explore some reasons: Reputation: perhaps the biggest and……
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Executive Burnout – Working the Marathon Shift
Anyone who has run a marathon can echo these words, “long-distance running is no cakewalk.” In fact, running those 42 kilometers places your body under such pressure and fatigue that an individual often needs up to two to three months to recover fully. This may seem like a long time, it did to me at……
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Women, Violence and Addiction: Breaking the Links in India
After the horrific attack on a female student in Delhi, which resulted in her death due to intense internal injuries and bleeding, more women in India have chosen to speak out about their own experiences of violence at the hands of both strangers and the people they know and love. Even the journalist Nita Bahalla,……
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Founder of World's Leading Women's Recovery Center Visits India on a Mission of Hope for Women Addicts
In the past few years, we have documented the growing challenge women in India face as they try to find help for addiction. We’ve been excited to see progress in this area. Some centres have been developing ways to help women specifically and some are even adding specific women’s programs. In a new and exciting……
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Why Do People Start Drinking and Doing Drugs?
Has this thought ever run through your brain: "You know, I would really like to ruin my life. And I'd like to start today!" I hope not. I also hope you'll never ruin your life. But just in case you were curious how to end up depressed, lonely, miserable, and feeling like death itself —……
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The Misery of Drug and Alcohol Use
Imagine a woman stops you on the street today and asks, "Do you want your life to be miserable when you get older?" Hopefully, you'd look at her like she was crazy and say, "No! Why would you ask me that?"[ref] How to Ruin your Life By 30: nine surprisingly Everyday mistakes you might be……
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New Drinking Laws in India: Irrational?
In case you didn’t know, last year Maharashtra passed a new drinking law. A law causing lots of discussion and division. A law creating criminals out of young drinkers. A law adorned by a few, loathed by more than a few and mocked by many (and you should know, the mockers don't necessarily live in……