Definition of Chemical Dependency & Alcoholism

What is drug addiction? What is alcoholism? How can we tell if someone is abusing or is addicted to drugs? What is the difference between addiction, dependence, abuse and misuse? Find all of the answers here.
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Assess Yourself

This section provides two different tools to help assess possible problems with alcohol or drugs. There is no definite quick test to tell if you have an alcohol or drug problem, but these tools can help assess the risk.
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Breaking Through Denial

Looking in the mirror and accepting what we see can be one of the hardest things we ever do. It’s especially hard when the image staring us in the face is painful or doesn’t fit with how we want to see ourselves.
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What Is Treatment?

Treatment involves several steps. The first step is to complete an assessment of what a person is doing and how they got to this point in their life. If a person is ready for change, then the next step is to develop a negotiated treatment plan.
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12 Step Program

Twelve Step meetings are a fellowship of men and women who have joined together to solve their common problem by placing principles before personalities.
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