People often associate impulsive behavior with children and adolescents. Disorders involving impulse often trigger drug or alcohol addiction, resulting a cycle of destructive behavior. Yoga can help alleviate the stress and anxiety that drives impulsive behavior and help curb addiction as part of a substance abuse treatment program. How Yoga Can Help Treat Addiction Eastern…
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An addiction is a complicated disease that impacts the physical, emotional and mental health of a teen. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (1), regular substance abuse changes the brain and impacts an individual’s self-control. Although substance abuse contributes to an addiction, some individuals do not become addicted to drugs or alcohol. By…
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One of the primary causes of substance abuse is a class of common conditions known to the mental health community as Impulse Control Disorders. Disorders of this type simply mean an individual has difficulty resisting the urge to engage in behavior and actions that are ultimately harmful and self-destructive. Impulsive behavior can also involve positive…
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It may seem surprising but there are ways to determine if a teenager is likely to develop alcohol problems before he or she starts drinking alcohol.
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Discovering that your teenage child has a problem with drugs or alcohol is devastating. As a parent, you want your son or daughter to be healthy, happy and safe, and substance abuse threatens all three. Although no single treatment program is right for each individual, says the National Institute on Drug Abuse, your teen can…
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The teen years are an emotional roller coaster complicated by hormonal changes and the transition between childhood and becoming an adult. Though most emerge from the teen years without complication, approximately 1 in 5 teens will develop depression at some point between the ages of 13 and 19, with an average age of onset at…
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Veteran’s Day is just a few days away in this country as is in my own. Its British equivalent, Remembrance Sunday, is held on the second Sunday of every November. At this time of year my mind goes to the memory of my grandfather, Henry Bainbridge Snr, who served in the Second World War. Harry…
Details“It’s closer to me than my breath,” a friend shared with me this morning. He wasn’t referring to the love he has for his fiancée, his creative writer’s muse, the passion he has for his work, the adoration he feels for his children. No; none of these. What then, what was it, this entity so…
DetailsAlthough teens are developmentally inherently predisposed towards leading their owners into risk-taking behaviors with the brain’s own queen of carpe diem, the amygdala, at the wheel, it is their very youth and neuro-malleability and plasticity which in my experience can be alchemized into their greatest recovery asset. How can this double act serve to help…
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