Posts tagged: Trauma

Addiction Detoxification

Addiction, as usually defined, is a physical dependence on a substance, in the case of drug addiction. Once an individual gets dependent on a substance, he or she is not able to function well and may feel physical pains when he or she doesn’t take in the drug. The reason is that the drug has already affected the chemical balance in the brain allowing the person’s system to crave for the certain drug in order to achieve sense of balance. This gets worse when the body starts to tolerate the substance that enters the system, thus, resulting to a higher quantity requirement the next time the drug is taken to reach the desired effect.

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Updated Alcohol, Trauma and Impaired Driving Report Now Available (Marketwire)

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New resource from MADD Canada, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse offers fully referenced compendium on alcohol/drug consumption and impaired driving.

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