Typically, we think about drug and alcohol rehab and imagine a thirty day stay in a residential treatment center, but with the continued research into drug treatment a new, innovative method has been adopted by the Canterbury Institute in New Jersey. This rehab center’s cutting edge approach to drug treatment focuses on short term outpatient […]
Category Archives: Alcoholism
Age of Alcoholism
August 13, 2007 – 8:43 pm
I’ve been hearing a lot of debate about lowering the legal drinking age to 18, and I can’t say I support that kind of move. Granted, underage alcohol consumption is a big problem, but I don’t see how lowering the legal drinking age would eliminate the underlying problems of underage drinking. Sure, it would make it […]
What is alcohol rehabilitation?
August 2, 2007 – 1:55 pm
Alcoholism is a form of addiction that takes thousands of lives every year. For many alcoholics, the addiction is not only lodged in the brain, but it produces a physical dependency which causes extremely uncomfortable and life-threatening symptoms when alcohol use is stopped abruptly. For this reason, most alcoholics cannot stop using on their own […]
