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World-famous rapper Eminem is celebrating 10 years of sobriety this month. Eminem, real name Marshall Bruce Mathers, checked himself into rehabilitation in 2008 following an accidental overdose which nearly claimed his life a year earlier. Having followed a 12-step program on his road to recovery, E...
It’s well publicised and relatively common knowledge what can happen TO your body when you drink, from severe dehydration and increased risks of certain diseases. But less is known about what happens to your body when you stop drinking alcohol. This may be because many feel their drinking is under...
Stress management and burnout prevention at executive level is a key theme in HR right now as staffing managers recognise that the mental and physical health of their employees has a direct impact on their performance. And whilst HR teams are beginning to put in place measures to help tackle stress ...
Introducing Condotti Villa, a world-leading luxury addiction recovery centre designed to help our clients re-adjust to life outside of treatment. The impressive former family home has been redeveloped but retainers its cosy, comfortable feel across five bedrooms, huge outdoor relaxation area, kitche...
You may not have heard of MDMA, but chances are you’ve heard of “Ecstasy” or “Molly.” These are one and the same. They refer to a recreational drug, an amphetamine derivative that has the chemical name 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and acts as a stimulant and hallucinogen. It causes e...
An eating disorder is a serious illness manifested through a person’s extreme obsession with their body weight, body shape, and the food they eat. This type of disorder affects all ages and genders, no matter what their size. People diagnosed with this illness usually experience drastic changes in...
Interacting with a family or friend experiencing an eating disorder can be difficult. You worry about saying the wrong things and making matters worse. However, it is important to reach out to them and address their illness in the right way. Most of the time, people with eating disorders are afraid ...
Most of the time, drug abuse becomes very evident when a person is already in too deep. As it often happens, people only realise the problem when it is already severe. At this point, rehabilitation and the eventual stoppage of abusive use of drugs become more difficult. Success and ease of stopping ...
Executive burnout is a process where the alarming signs of stress occur day in and day out over an extended period of time. Stress symptoms tend to only manifest themselves for a short period of time and on an isolated basis, whereas executive burnout is the collection of stress which lasts for a ...
Pain which requires some sort of prescription medication like painkillers is very common across the world. What a lot of people fail to realise is that the taking of prescription medication has a high risk of leading to addiction. The medication you are taking may take away the pain, but they also b...
Taking up the challenge of dry January has grown in popularity over the past decade. The idea behind the movement is to give up alcohol for an entire month with some seeing it purely as a way to challenge themselves or raise money for a cause, but most do not take it as seriously as they perhaps cou...
The New Year is almost upon us, and like many, we tend to set our targets and ambitions for the year to come in the form of New Year’s Resolutions. If you start to peel back some of the most common resolutions that we tend to set, such as ‘I want to lose weight’, ‘I will see my family mo...
As the calendar flips to December 1st, Christmas preparations move into full swing. But whilst the festive period is typically a merry one for most, for others it can be incredibly stressful. In fact, one in 20 say they find Christmas more stressful than being burgled. So as the big day looms, here ...
It’s estimated that one in 12 Americans suffers from alcohol dependence or abuse, whilst in the UK around 7,000 annual deaths are attributed to alcohol consumption. Alcohol dependence occurs over time and as such as be difficult to spot when an individual goes from ‘enjoying a little too much’...
Crack is a powerful stimulant that targets the central nervous system. When smoked, this drug enters your bloodstream through the lungs, from there it journeys to your brain and that is when the feel-good chemical known as dopamine is released and gives you a sense of satisfaction and reward. Unfort...
