Drug Rehab vs. incarceration is examined in California’s Proposition 5. In California as in the rest of the country we continue to struggle financially. The search to cut costs may have a profound affect on how we as a country address the growing population of drug addicts in prisons. A one time savings of 2.5 [...]

Eating Disorders and Drug Abuse are related in the compulsivity exhibited by those suffering with these diseases. The relationship is further connected by the stigma attached, by society, to both groups of people. Obese people are shunned in public and suffer countless indignities on a daily basis. Addicts are looked down on and in some [...]

Drug rehabilitation by definition refers to a process by which a person dependent on drugs/alcohol undergoes medical or psycho therapeutic treatment for the purposes of discontinuing the use of those drugs. Rehabilitation also includes the process by which a person is returned to a state of normalcy. Normalcy may include a return to work, repairing [...]

Emotional Eating Disorder occurs during times of stress and high anxiety. The American Dietetic Association has stated half of all binge eaters are triggered by difficult situations which happen during normal activities. It’s not necessarily the degree of a negative event that causes the binge eating, but the lack of copping skills which causes the [...]