Do you want to get to understand addiction better? Are you or is someone you love suffering from an addiction? Learn about the complex interplay between our brain, behaviour and addiction and what you can do about it.
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Do you pop a pill to calm the nerves before a stressful meeting? Maybe to help you sleep better? Or does it just ease off the day’s worries? The temporary relief that calming pills provide is alluring but the side-effects are dangerous. Feeling spaced out the next day, forgetting things and needing to take more…
It is often erroneously assumed that a trauma response was caused by a singular occurrence, or by narrowly defined recent circumstances. In truth traumatic events can occur over the duration of a lifetime with a broad range of complex trauma responses and behaviour maladaptions. This is the arena of complex trauma or C-PTSD which is one of the most common trauma disorders presented in addiction patients today.
As an employer in South Africa one of your key concerns is keeping a healthy, capable and productive workforce in operation. Substance abuse is a given variable in the workplace, in that up to 15% of the workforce may be addicted to some harmful substance or another. When alcohol or drug addiction reaches out of…
Overview of Addiction Treatment Groups Besides individual and family sessions, group therapy is a valuable additional tool in addiction treatment. It is neither better nor worse than the other methods. It is an effective additional type of therapy that improves the security of long term sobriety when added to other forms of treatment.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of mindfulness based therapy which teaches people to diminish the impact of intrusive thoughts, to refrain from overreacting and to gain control over their lives by taking action. ACT focuses on three areas: Accept your reactions and be present Choose a valued direction Take action There are six pillars…
Don’t kid yourself. There is nothing cool about one of South Africa’s most addictive substances. Methamphetamine, or more colloquially Tik, is a self-destructive drug that often results in people seeking professional medical and psychological care to break the addictive cycle of abuse. How To Help a Loved One