Cathedral Shelter of Chicago Adult Outpatient Program
1668 West Ogden Street
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 997-2222x245
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Treatment & Detox Guide
Types of Alcoholism & How Treatment Centers Can Help
Living with an alcoholic can be extremely hard and stressful and being addicted to alcohol can cause both psychological and physical damage to a person’s body. Since alcohol is the number one abused drug in the world there are many people who suffer from alcohol addiction and since alcohol addiction effect millions of Americans, there….
Drinking problem: Too many people binge
Alcohol-related crime is much higher in communities where more people binge drink, and too many people binge drink in Inverell. That information has come from the initial findings of the Alcohol Action in Rural Communities (AARC) project. Close collaborations with members of the Inverell community and the AARC project have helped reveal that rural NSW….
Substance abuse, schizophrenia and risk of violence
A study published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine demonstrates that there is an association between schizophrenia and violence, but shows that this association is greatly increased by drug and alcohol abuse. Importantly, the study also finds that the risk of violence from patients with psychoses who also have substance use disorder….
Effects of alcohol addiction
Alcohol addiction is the most common type of addiction, which has spread across the world and the number of population under alcohol addiction is increasing at an alarming rate. The habit of drinking alcohol is very fatal and therefore it needs to be timely restrained. There are various long term and short-term effects of alcohol….
Finding Help for Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drug abuse is no longer a problem that only a certain generation or age group faces; rather it has become an epidemic, touching people of all walks of life. Many of the commonly abused prescription drugs are those that are prescribed for many health issues as well as recovery from those issues. Prescription drug abuse….