Cocaine addiction – how does it happen? Cocaine is a stimulant substance that improves focus and energy by flooding the brain with dopamine. Even a small dose of cocaine has a temporary stimulating effect on the body. It makes the person using it feel euphoric, energetic, talkative, and mentally alert. Other effects of using…
One of the questions anyone who wants to enter alcohol rehab asks oneself is: “What is the alcohol rehab process like?”. It’s normal to ask yourself this question, and this is what we’re trying to explain in this post. Alcohol dependence treatment – how is it to approach one of the alcohol rehab centres?…
Gambling addiction — also known as pathological gambling, compulsive gambling, or gambling disorder — is an impulse-control disorder. Compulsive gamblers can lose or win thousands of pounds within a matter of days, or even hours because they are unable to stop gambling. Of course, most of the time they lose and the house wins –…
Alcohol addiction is so widespread that sometimes people don’t see it as an addiction anymore and consider it quite normal. Especially during these difficult times of uncertainty, many people are drinking more than they used to in an attempt to relieve stress. This is wrong and can lead to alcohol addiction over a quick period.…
Most people drink alcohol. Its pleasurable effects allow you to relax, feel confident and have a good time. This is due to alcohol affecting your brain as soon as it enters the bloodstream. Once the alcohol has reached your brain, you will think differently and feel differently. In a healthy person who is able to…
Addiction trends in London were at their lowest ever recorded point at the beginning of the 20th Century. Since then, substance misuse, alcohol abuse and drug-related deaths have steadily risen leading us up to today. The trends recorded for addiction in London are representative of the rest of the UK, which has seen drug and…
PCP receives many calls from family members who are worried their loved one has a gambling problem or addiction. Just like any other addiction, gambling addiction starts in the brain and its response to a stimulus. Just because a substance is not involved as such, does not mean that gambling addiction is any easier to…
Depression and addiction are two topics of conversation that can be very hard to talk about when you suffer from them. Part of you may want the words “Help Me!” to come tumbling out whilst the other part of you fights to keep them in. The tragic stigma that is attached to both mental health…
Public Health England has estimated that as many as 589,101 adults in London suffer from alcohol dependency and are in need of specialist alcohol treatment. These statistics are detailed in the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) report for 2016-2017. The report further details that only 1 in 5 adults with alcohol addiction treatment needs,…
Ben Affleck, the 46-year-old famous Hollywood actor and filmmaker, has broken his silence over his alcohol addiction treatment earlier this year. Affleck, whose ongoing battle with alcohol and gambling has been very much publicised, spent 40 days in a residential treatment centre for alcohol where he was admitted over the summer. There, he underwent his…