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October 30, 2020

What is caffeine?

Caffeine is a drug that is found in tea, coffee, cocoa, many soft drinks such as colas and some chocolates. It is also used in a wide variety of medicines especially cold remedies. Caffeine can be manufactured in a laboratory but it mainly comes from the Arabian coffee shrub, commercial tea plants, cocoa beans and

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September 11, 2020

Specific Types of Behavioral Disorders

Substance abuse among adolescents is potentially a problem of genetics influenced by easy access to addictive substances in the environment; however, it is also considered a symptom of underlying behavioral disorders, especially if the substance abuse is used to self-medicate or rebel against authority figures. According to SAMSHA, about 3.3 percent of adults in 2014 had

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July 29, 2020

19 Signs You’re Addicted to Your Smartphone

Everyone knows that smartphones make life convenient. They make it easy to check the weather, find a recipe, stay in touch with friends, follow the news, or just see what Kim Kardashian had for breakfast. But for people with nomophobia, smartphones cause more problems than they solve. Nomophobia is a moniker for smartphone addiction, short

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June 24, 2020

Exercise and your Mental Health

  Keeping active helps protect both your physical and mental health. Regular exercise will help you sleep, relax and feel better. Exercise helps reduce stress and boosts your energy levels. It can also be a good way to meet people and get more involved in your community. Physical activity can cause chemical changes in the

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September 12, 2018

Letting Go

If you’re suddenly hearing Elsa singing “Let it go, let it go” in your head right now, don’t worry, I hear it too! (You’re not going mad) Unlike the fabled Disney fairytale, Frozen, addiction is a cold hard reality firmly set in the real world. As much as we’d love to wave a magical wand

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September 12, 2018

Enabling vs Helping

Last week we focused a little more on the addict and how they condition others through manipulation to maintain their toxic lifestyles. This week we are shifting back to the family unit again. So, just to refresh the mind let’s remember what enabling is… Enabling is a means by which someone facilitates a person’s addiction

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September 12, 2018

Conditioning

Enabling is very much a give and take cycle. The direction of negative and positive interaction flows in both directions just as they do in any relationship. We need to arm ourselves with knowledge so that we can better perceive the negative actions that keep enabling cycles alive. Often the addict will deceive and manipulate

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September 12, 2018

Are you Enabling

Last week we learned that there are two types of ways we can help our loved ones in addiction. One is by enabling (negative) and the other is by empowering/helping/supporting (positive). Enabling is any behaviour that helps to facilitate another person’s addiction. Enabling makes it possible for the addict to continue acting out in self-defeating

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September 12, 2018

Enable < Empower

In the past few weeks we took you through the foundations of recovery, the 12 Steps of Narcotics Anonymous. During the next couple weeks, we are going to unpack and discuss a very important aspect in addiction – enabling. What is enabling? The Oxford English dictionary tells us that the verb “enable” means to… 1.

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