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Playing video games can be a fun way to pass the time. Video games played with a computer, console, or handheld device, are after all created in a way that is engaging, challenging, and very entertaining. Many state of the art technology go into ensuring that each video game that comes out is something that

Seeing a loved one throw his life and his health down the drain because of addiction can be heartbreaking. You would want to find a way to help him–even save him. If you could only understand, or if you could only make his problems go away…

When people refer to someone as being an “addict” thoughts of a emaciated, dirty and disheveled person high on drugs come to mind. In our society, it may as well be easy to generalize things this way, but this is dangerous. If you read on our article debunking addiction myths, you will find out why–and

Many start out using drugs for fun, or out of curiosity. You can even say that you may have used drugs for the first time at a party, while celebrating an occasion, among friends, or simply to feel good. Soon enough, you will find yourself wanting to relive those moments and the good, happy, elating

Bridges of Hope Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, with its main branch in BF Homes Paranaque, fully opens its facility in New Manila, Quezon City to cater to those needing addiction intervention and rehabilitation in the Northern NCR and Luzon area.

The number of people getting addicted to drugs, alcohol, and behavior or activities is alarmingly increasing. It is a scourge to society, as it takes its random victim one after the other. Whether it is an uncontrollable desire to go binge-drinking, an obsession to shop for luxury items, a gambling problem, or a drug habit,

Drugs are chemicals that affect the brain and body in various ways. Abused, they can cause damaging effects on the brain and body’s functions. Even after users have stopped taking them, the effects may still be present in the brain and body, and even cause permanent changes to them.

So what is a high-functioning addict and how can you spot one? The stereotype of addicts and alcoholics often involves images of people who are homeless, destitute, and filthy looking—in short, a mess. Addicts are almost always depicted this way in the media. They are mostly associated with crime and poverty. However, not all addicts

Addiction is plagued by many dangerous myths and misinformation, further aggravating the problem and even hindering an addict’s road to recovery. These myths have made it even harder for addicts to seek help and go back to a normal life in their sober state. As recovering addicts, some even feel the stigma brought about by

Addiction affects your family in more ways that you could every grasp. Let’s find out what the hidden costs of addiction are when there’s an addict in the family. “When I hear or read people say they are addicted to shoes, or chocolates, or this tv show or that dish…I cringe,” says Carla*, a twenty-something mother