The road to a life of healthy, sober living from substance addiction is a long and difficult one, but it’s an essential road to travel nonetheless. A life of sobriety and freedom from addiction is worth fighting for, and with the help of a drug rehab centre in Cape Town, you can achieve and maintain […]
There’s no arbitrary reason that rehabilitation is most often done with in-patient care. Studies and experience have long since proven that environmental factors significantly increase the risk of addiction, depression, and substance abuse. One of the first steps in rehabilitation is to remove addicts from the environment that facilitated or led to their addiction, often […]
Drug addiction South Africa has always been of serious concern, and yet, alarmingly, recent studies have found illicit drug use, and the rampant crime to come with it, to be on a steady rise. With these new alarming figures in mind, let’s take a look at some of the most frequently abused substances in South […]
Lockdown has given us more free time than ever before, all while restricting what we do with that time. Cooped up indoors, many are turning to new or prior vices to get themselves through what has arguably been an incredibly dark and difficult period of recent history. Amongst these vices, process addictions have become more […]
The lockdown and social distancing have been incredibly difficult to many, and even more so for those living alone, both with and without preexisting conditions. Isolated from the rest of the world, often without employment or a stable support system, alcoholics and even recovering alcoholics will turn to alcohol to escape the pain of lockdown […]
Stepping away from the environments we associate with our addiction is a significant part of rehabilitation; hence it’s so frequently recommended that patients undergo treatment in-house, away from the triggers and stressors that lead to substance abuse. In-patient treatment also allows for a controlled environment, with a support structure of peers and professionals for guidance […]
The consumption of alcohol is so heavily normalised and ingrained into our society that alcohol addiction accounts for the most cases of substance abuse in the UK and the world over. In spite of its high addiction liability and the staggering rate of alcohol-related fatal accidents and criminal activity, excessive alcohol consumption is not only […]
Addiction goes beyond the scope of substance abuse, and most recently, studies have shown that certain behaviours and activities can become addictive as well. Besides the already well documented and warned about addiction to gambling, there is a broad spectrum of addictions and dependencies that fall under what is known as behavioural addictions (or otherwise […]