Healthy Lifestyle Choices to Reduce Addiction Risks
By Elizabeth Hartney, About.com Guide to Addictions
Many lifestyle choices affect your risk of addiction, your state of health and your well-being if you engage in addictive behaviors. It's important to know about these issues if you want to avoid future difficulties, make positive changes to your lifestyle, and prepare for and maintain recovery from addiction.
Life With Addiction
Life with an addiction is a rollercoaster ride, with plenty of highs, lows, ups and downs. How do you cope? And how long can you keep going, before you really get into trouble?
Quitting and Moving On With Your Life
Whether you have lived with an addiction for years, or you have just realized that quitting isn't as easy as you thought it would be, there is hope. Your readiness and determination are major factors in your future success. A range of resources can help you to get ready and follow through on creating a new life for yourself.
Tips For Parents
Drug problems and addiction are among the greatest fears any responsible parent has for a child's future. Limiting opportunities for your child to access drugs is important, but there are many other addiction risks that are closer to home. Accurate information is the best way to help your child develop the skills to avoid addiction problems, now and in the future.
