admin @ November 7, 2008 # One Comment
There is no doubt that drug rehab is a difficult process for both the individual suffering from the addiction, as well as for his/her family. While it is easy for a person to become addicted to a substance, it can be very hard for them to give it up. The first step is the hardest [...]
admin @ September 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The traditional approach to alcohol rehabilitation is to simply place the alcoholic in a center and provide him or her with detox programs. However, this policy does not offer the same benefits to both men and women. For example, women metabolize alcohol in a different manner than men, leading to different severities of dependence. In [...]
admin @ September 2, 2008 # One Comment
Women who suffer from alcohol addiction and who are searching for an alcohol rehab center to help them with their problem would do well to find a center that treats women exclusively. The reason for this is simple: women and men are different and treatment for their addictions should be different as well. In fact, [...]
admin @ August 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
On record, four million women suffer from alcohol or drug problems every year in America. However, these statistics only take into account women who have come forth and acknowledged to a problem. That means that thousands of unreported cases of women, children and mothers alike, may be suffering from alcohol addiction. They may be ashamed [...]
admin @ June 30, 2008 # 3 Comments
By Don Grant Alcohol treatment centers for women, and female addiction in general, were until very recently, not even a subject which was discussed in “polite company.” Fortunately, thanks to the courageous honesty of women like Betty Ford, Carrie Fisher and of course, “celebutantes” like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, not only are women finally [...]
admin @ May 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In today’s American society, a woman can receive alcohol rehabilitation from treatment programs that are vastly improved from treatment programs offered in the past. Alcoholism is a disease that takes on a relatively predictable course and manifests itself in predictable symptoms. Today’s programs understand the disease of alcoholism and have worked to offer the best [...]
admin @ May 9, 2008 # One Comment
With so much media attention focused on celebrities seeking alcohol rehabilitation and the treatment centers which provide it, it is difficult to discern what differentiates one drug and alcohol treatment program from another. Certainly, factors such as patient capacity, types of recovery offered and cost can prove important points to consider. However, Harmony Place Exclusively [...]