Jeremy Mayfield tests positive for meth a second time:

NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield tested positive for methamphetamine for the second time and lawyers for the racing series argued the driver should have his ban reinstated, according to a motion filed in federal court Wednesday.

The urine sample collected on July 6 "conclusively" showed that Mayfield had again used the addictive street drug, NASCAR’s lawyers wrote in the filing that urges a U.S. District Court judge in Charlotte to reconsider the temporary restraining order that lifted the 40-year-old driver’s suspension.  Mayfield again disputed the results.

Jeremy Mayfield Methamphetamine use Court Documents

"I didn’t think they were going to come back and say I was clean," Mayfield said on Sirius Satellite Radio. "They have a hard time admitting when they’re wrong."

Wednesday’s filing also included an affidavit from Mayfield’s’ estranged stepmother, Lisa Mayfield. In the document, she alleged she was "personally aware" of his use of meth between 1998 and 2005 and that Jeremy Mayfield cooked up his own batch the drug before the sale of major ingredient for the drug, pseudoephedrine, was restricted.

Lisa Mayfield also recounted an incident in 1999 when she claimed to have witnessed Mayfield use the drug before a race at Darlington Raceway.

"I was concerned about his heavy use and talked to his father about it," Lisa Mayfield said. "I saw Jeremy use methamphetamine by snorting it up his nose at least 30 times during the seven years I was around him."

Mayfield denied those claims as well.

"I’m not even going to call that lady my stepmom," Mayfield said. "She’s a very evil lady who can be bought."

David Black said the second test reaffirms the initial test from May 1 that began more than two months of legal wrangling.

"This is a drug that is very problematic and it’s not too surprising that you would have a second positive," said Black, whose Tennessee-based Aegis Analytical Laboratories run’s NASCAR’s screening program. "The evidence shows that we have a meth user who should not be allowed to compete in NASCAR. He presents a risk to himself and others. I think this outcome demonstrates the strength of NASCAR’s drug policy and the policy as applied does work."

Even if the court fails to reinstate the ban, it’s unclear when Mayfield will race again. Mayfield has been eligible to race the last two Sprint Cup events, but his one-car team has missed the last nine events. Mayfield has no employees left working for his team after GM Bob Wooten left the team Wednesday and it could be unlikely that many owners would take a flyer on Mayfield.

Mayfield’s racing future could hinge on the so-called "B" sample, urine collected the same time the initial test was run. The sample currently resides with Aegis even though Mayfield’s lawyers have requested the sample be sent to another lab.

"It’s our view that Jeremy’s B sample should be tested by an independent lab to confirm the test," said John Buric, one of Mayfield’s lawyers. "We have asked NASCAR to send the it to a lab of our choosing and they have refused to do so."

It may be up to a judge to rule where the B sample will be sent.

Buric said Mayfield’s urine was free from any illegal substances when he was tested July 6 — the same day NASCAR collected its urine sample that led to the most recent positive — at a lab. Buric refused to provide the results, although he said they would be made public at future court filing.

"Mr. Mayfield does not have a meth problem," Buric said.

Mayfield’s lawyers also filed their response Wednesday to NASCAR’s motion last week to overturn Mullen’s injunction.

The brief, which didn’t include the results of Mayfield’s latest drug case, argued NASCAR was trying to "fashion the rules to their liking" by not meeting the requirements needed to overturn the ruling. Mayfield’s lawyers argued Mullen had correctly ruled that Mayfield faced irreparable harm from a suspension and doubts remain about the accuracy of NASCAR’s testing policy.

"NASCAR is absolutely corrupted by power, and it’s untenable motion to stay should be denied," his lawyers wrote.

Yesterday NASCAR submitted a motion to U.S. District Court in Charlotte that Judge Graham Mullen should rule in its favor based on what has been filed and without the two sides continuing to investigate the issues. Jeremy Mayfield has held fast in his defense that he didn’t test positive for methamphetamine, only a combination of prescription Adderall and Claritin-D. NASCAR is also still standing by their original claims of having 2 drug tests that show Mayfield tested positive for methamphetamine. NASCAR’s motion also mentions the dangers of having a potential meth-head behind the wheel of a stock car. Mayfield has filed a counter suite stating breach of contract, discrimination and defamation in an attempt to get back on the track and for financial damages. NASCAR’s latest motion filed also states the following:

• The driver agreement with NASCAR waives all claims arising from the implementation of NASCAR’s substance-abuse policy.

• NASCAR’s substance-abuse policy does not include an obligation to follow guidelines that regulate federal agencies.

• NASCAR Chairman Brian France and Aegis’ Dr. David Black have no reason to believe the tests are inaccurate, so their statements about Mayfield testing positive were done without malice – and with Mayfield a public figure, their statements cannot be considered defamation.

• NASCAR did not discriminate against Mayfield because Mayfield is not a NASCAR employee and not a qualified person with a disability under North Carolina law.

The case is currently still in it’s developing stages so a trial isn’t expected until September 2010 at the earliest. What do you think of the latest Mayfield drama?

How do you deal with a father’s alcohol-inspired abusive behavior during the Holidays?

Dr. Peele:

Why does one and how does one stop feeling sorry for an alcoholic? My father is an alcoholic and can be verbally abusive to my mother. In anger I will lash out at him but the next day will continue to act ‘normally’. He takes it very badly if I, his daughter, am cross with him. Sometimes I feel I should kind of put my foot down to this unacceptable behaviour, but she can take it in a way and he can’t – he gets very morose and starts talking about how soon he is going to die and he knows we all hate him, etc. I know it is emotional blackmail, etc. but I still feel he is in the grip of something he can’t control – it’s a bit like demanding a deaf man hear because you ‘talk’ to him in braille and so he MUST understand. Sometimes I think the hurt and pain that he is suffering, even if only a little and only in lucid moments, is more than we can feel hurt in ‘real’ life, even though his may be self-inflicted, etc… it doesn’t matter because he is still hurting and he can’t deal with that hurt. And that hurt may be all topsy turvy but it had some kind of root or cause that ‘by the grace of God there go I,’ he hasn’t learnt something in life to help him to deal with it, or perhaps it’s part of what he needs to learn him life. It seems cruel to punish him more by withdrawing what love and understanding, any love and understanding, one can give him. And everything has its cost. Perhaps that is, in this case, my mother’s greater strength.

Kathy

Dear Kathy:

Your letter is almost a philosophical treatise — laying out the nature of abusive behavior by a family member whom you love but resent and its impact on other family members, and particularly yourself. People having been dealing with this forever — not only around alcoholism (there are movies and plays about such things — e.g., Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolfe). Here is my modest little list of ways to respond:

• protect yourself – make sure you are not hurt and that you don’t implicate yourself in the abuse (by going along with it); remove yourself from the situation when the behavior reaches a level that you feel is intolerable; I assume you don’t have children yourself, because this is often a crystallizing experience that makes people become more insistent on staying way from this abuse;
• offer support for those most directly affected (i.e., your mother) to remove herself, temporarily or permanently, but if she chooses not to, lay back and accept her choice, because you can do nothing else about it; stop viewing her as a victim but see her as a willing participant, however much this improves or depreciates your view of her;
• make clear to your father (and mother) that you love them, but that for your own mental health there are certain things you will not put up with or participate in; offer always to support and talk with either of them provided they come to you with "clean hands" (not when they are trying to score points against one another, or to get you to excuse them from previous misbehavior). I hope this is of some help.

And thank you for being a loving daughter.

Stanton

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Should I turn my father over to his military superiors?

Stanton,

My father is an alcoholic in the military. He and my family live on the other coast from me. I feel helpless and as though I can’t do anything to help my father. So I decided to write him a letter telling him to admit that he has a problem with alcohol, because he is in total denial. My strategy against my very intelligent father is to put his career in jeopardy by writing his commanding officer and pleading to him about this problem, but I gave my dad an option to shape up and get help on his own or have the military give him help.

My question is if they will discharge him after an investigation is done, or if he will be demoted or loose his chance for promotion. I know that the military does take alcoholism seriously especially in the case of DUI’s (my father has not had one). Could you tell me what will likely happen if I do send that letter, I only want to do it to save his life and have him get professional help. Do you think my letter is a good idea even?

Your friend, Sylvia

Sylvia,

I don’t know what the military will do to your father. But to threaten (potentially) his career is probably not a good way to approach him initially. You need to begin talking to him in a much less threatening way. You could try to tell him about your concern. Or you could simply ask about his drinking – what it means to him, whether he considers it a problem, etc. You don’t say anything about your mother’s reactions (or those of other family members). I would do more research and groundwork, and make a more gradual effort, before turning your father over to impersonal military authorities. If you are familiar with the military, or other governmental bureaucracies, do you expect them to be more concerned or helpful than the people who love him?

Stanton

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Can a person be addicted to get-rich-quick schemes, and how can I stop my father from ruining himself and my mother?

Dr. Peele:

My father has what I consider to be an addiction, but it is not addressed in any literature that I have read (including any that I could find on your website), so I am unsure of how to proceed.

For his entire adult life, my father has been drawn to high-risk, relatively low-investment get-rich-quick schemes. It does not satisfy many definitions of addiction, because it has not become steadily or increasingly worse, and he has always managed to keep his losses less than devastating, so he does have a certain amount of control over it. But he has consistently lost money, adding up to a considerable lifetime total. And although he is in many ways a very intelligent and competent person, when it comes to these investments, he loses all perspective and reason: he once invested in a perpetual motion machine; in a gold mine in Peru operated by a couple of American teenagers; etc. He also consistently hooks up with other investors who have admittedly lost money on the venture in question, but convince him they are going to turn things around any day now and start raking in the bucks.

I spent my younger adult life trying to distance myself from this and to learn to say no for his requests for money for investments, but things are at a point now where I would like to do some kind of intervention. About three years ago, he made one of these investments that cost him (and my mother) virtually all of their retirement savings and put them in a very difficult situation. My husband and I helped them out somewhat, and things were bad enough that he promised to cool it (even though he immediately proceeded with ridiculous plans to finance another project, but none of his own money was actually spent on it). But a couple of weeks ago he wrote a letter addressed to only my husband, asking my husband not to let me or my mother know, urging my husband to help him with an investment plan for trading on-line. That was the last straw for me and I want to stop just trying to keep out of his way, and I want to try to do something to stop him. Not to mention, to help my mother from living any more of her life just above the edge of poverty.

I am especially concerned because of the stories I have heard of big losses happening very quickly with those on-line trading accounts. I am concerned because my mother is 75, my father 80, and they cannot weather any more of his losses at their age and in their current financial situation. This is tricky because there is no book I can buy on stupid investment addictions or verse from the Bible that I can quote to try to convince both of them that he has a serious problem — he has a thousand excuses and evasions, including "You don’t want to take away an old man’s dreams, do you?" or "I would have no reason to go on living." And my mother’s main concern is always to avoid confrontation and to be a good, supportive wife.

I read on your site that you are against interventions, but what can I do that might reasonably make a positive difference, or at least to protect my mother from further harm?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

JoAnne

Dear JoAnne:

You have described remarkably well a fairly frequent occurrence, and one that in such extreme cases as your father’s merits the label "addiction," marked in this case by the desire to get immediately back into the saddle with a new investment, to recoup the losses of the last scheme.

This is a favorite topic in literature — the individual addicted to the get-rich-quick scheme, the one break that will make over their life. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Wallace Stegner’s Big Rock Candy Mountain, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby — all describe characters looking for a way to make it in an American society that prizes success and wealth above everything.

Let’s work backwards. Your father is 80, and he hardly has any money left? He may not have a long time to live, but the idea is to keep him comfortable, and to provide for your mother. But it seems (from his contacting your husband) that, in order to get capital for his next scheme, he needs an injection of money from your household.

Unless I’m missing something, you can nip this all in the bud by letting all his schemes die through lack of funds — who will let your father invest on credit, in stocks or anything else?

You don’t need to do an intervention that makes your father own up to his misguided life — which, it sounds as though you agree, is going to be a tough sell. If you wished to take a radical step, you could have him declared incompetent with you as guardian, so that you make his major financial decisions and he can’t sign agreements on his own. You could hire a lawyer or find a form book to make this application, then file on your own at your county court house. Remember, competence determinations are not global; they apply to specific areas, so that your father could be declared incompetent in financial matters but retain his autonomy in the other areas of his life.

If you have to explain your actions to your father, you might say, "Dad, you’re asking us for money, and you’re hurting mom’s well-being. I can’t let you risk either of those two things. I’m afraid your investment-entrepreneurial career is over."

We could also ask the significance of all of these things for you. Your father disregards you (along with your mom), makes outlandish choices without consulting or listening to either of you, forces you to reject him as a significant figure in your life (while your mother simply "rolls over" to his demands and reckless actions). How has all this influenced your view of yourself, your attitudes towards risk, your choice of and relationships with men? Is some of your bitterness towards him due to the toll all this has extracted from your life?

All best,
Stanton

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Obama Blows His Presidency — Top Ten Health Care Reforms He Won’t Do

For the first time in memory, Bill O’Reilly, arch Fox conservative, and Chris Matthews, arch MSNBC liberal, reacted the same to an event — both found that Barack Obama failed entirely to explain his plans for health care reform in his televised press conference.

And virtually all commentators noted the same flaw in the Obama presentation and explanation — he’s afraid to tell Americans that — well, remember that old sign: "You can have it cheaper, better, and more of it — but not all at the same time"?

I watched the sacrificial Democrat (you know, the one labeled "Democratic strategist" sandwiched between two nuts like the host himself on one of those Hannity panels) who intoned: "Health care reform will maintain current coverages, give access to everyone, and save money." You can see why Hannity selected her — to make the nuts look reasonable!

But Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel — and the entire Republican leadership — are just as bad. Ask them what will have to be sacrificed, and they (the Dems) indicate "Nothing — just a few millionaires will pay more taxes." And, oh, there is one health care player Obama is willing to punish — insurers (even pharmaceutical manufacturers escape his opprobrium).

Republicans, as usual, are living in some other time and place. Their claim? "American health care is the best in the world. We’ll reduce the costs with tort reform, and give everyone greater access by incentivizing (a popular Obama term) private coverage."

Oh, and both sides will eliminate waste, duplication, and fraud. That should save a trillion or two right there!

Here are the top ten health care reforms neither side will propose:

1. Means test Social Security and Medicare
2. Pay only for effective treatments
3. Channel patients to providers who accept a prix-fixe pay schedule
4. "Incentivize" individual care choices (i.e., make people pay for more of what they use)
5. Tax employer health care benefits as income
6. Make managed care de rigeur
7. Mandate that every American must have health care coverage
8. Favor treatment for the young and fixable over the old and incurable
9. Eliminate private insurance
10. Put Obama’s birth certificate on the back of the one dollar bill (oops, wrong post!)

Failing to do these things will not produce better care for more people at lower prices. Rather, it will mean a diminishing group will receive unlimited (but but not necessarily effective) treatment costing everyone more.

And Barack Obama is just too nice a guy, too good a politician, and too reluctant to give people bad news to blow the whistle on this three-card monte — or, better, Ponzi — scheme. You know, the kind of deal where you collect more and more money for an unsustainable and unproductive enterprise until the entire house of cards collapses?

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The Cycle of Addiction

No one intends to become a drug addict or alcoholic. Our experiences show that the drug addict or alcoholic was usually an intelligent and often creative person with much hope for the future.

However, they were unable to deal effectively with life’s problems and turned to drugs or alcohol as a means of dealing with unwanted situations.

The person usually takes drugs because they attempt to compensate for some personal deficiency or life situation. They may be depressed, in pain or incapable of dealing with a loss of a loved one or extreme circumstance. It could also be as simple as a need to fit in and make friends, or a way to lose weight. Regardless of the reason, the person begins to seek "help" in the form of drugs or alcohol.

Drugs are essentially a pain-killer. They lessen emotional and physical pain and provide the user with a temporary escape from problems. When a person is unable to cope with something in life and take drugs as a result, they feel they have found a way to deal with the problem.

The more a person uses drugs or excessive alcohol, the worse the problem becomes. So they continue the “solution” for their problems, more drugs. Soon new problems are created by drug use. The person feels the need to use consistently, and will do anything to get high.

They are now addicted. They become difficult to communicate with, withdrawn and begin to exhibit the strange behavior associated with being on drugs. The more the person uses to try to counter this effect, the more desperate he becomes.

Their use begins to affect their personal relationships, their job, their bank account, and anything of previous value to the addict. Now the person’s entire focus becomes centered on using drugs and getting more drugs, regardless of the cost. They sacrifice everything to avoid the pain of withdrawal, the guilt of what they have done and the problems they have been running from.

At this point, the average drug user does one of three things:

1. Continues using drugs and becomes more and more lost, unhealthy and degraded until he eventually becomes homeless or dead.

 

2. Gets arrested for some drug-related activity and goes to jail or prison.

 

3. Attempt to quit drugs in any one of a variety of ways. He may try to stop on his own, or go to a drug addiction treatment center or program. Sadly, the success rate of traditional treatment is not high and most addicts continue to relapse. This destroys the addict’s confidence and leads him to feel he will remain a slave to drugs forever.

HOWEVER, there is a way out…..

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In medical terminology, an addiction is a chronic neurobiologic disorder that has genetic, psychosocial, and environmental dimensions and is characterized by one of the following: the continued use of a substance despite its detrimental effects, impaired control over the use of a drug (compulsive behavior), and preocupation with a drug’s use for non-therapeutic purposes (i.e. craving the drug). Addiction is often accompanied the presence of deviant behaviors (for instance stealing money and forging prescriptions) that are used to obtain a drug.

Tolerance to a drug and physical dependence are not defining characteristics of addiction, although they typically accompany addiction to certain drugs. Tolerance is a pharmacologic phenomenon where the dose of a medication needs to be continually increase in order to maintain its desired effects. For instance, individuals with severe chronic pain taking opiate medications (like morphine) will need to continually increase the dose in order to maintain the drug’s analgesic (pain-relieving) effects. Physical dependence is also a pharmacologic property and means that if a certain drug is abruptly discontinued, an individual will experience certain characteristic withdrawal signs and symptoms. Many drugs used for therapeutic purposes produce withdrawal symptoms when abruptly stopped, for instance oral steroids, certain antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opiates.

However, common usage of the term addiction has spread to include psychological dependence. In this context, the term is used in drug addiction and substance abuse problems, but also refers to behaviors that are not generally recognized by the medical community as problems of addiction, such as compulsive overeating.

The term addiction is also sometimes applied to compulsions that are not substance-related, such as problem gambling and computer addiction. In these kinds of common usages, the term addiction is used to describe a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity, despite harmful consequences, as deemed by the user himself to his or her

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Calif. Rep. Mary Bono Mack talks to Maggie Rodriguez about her son’s plea for help with prescription drug addiction.

As we all walk this road called life, there will be different challenges that will confront us. And one such challenge or obstacle may be of a physical nature. Because of the complexity of our bodies, there could be several people with some sort of a physical aliment, yet, each situation completely different from the other. Each individual could relate to their own situation, and at the same time, know nothing at all about another person’s physical condition.

However, I have discovered that there is a common condition, situation that most of us at one time or another have suffered from, some individuals have on a daily basis, and it is called stress! Now, I have been in the ministry for over half my life, along with being a pastor for nearly ten years. Also, I have been a chaplain at a maximum security prison. So, I qualify to know what it is to deal with stress. Anytime you have to deal with the public, people in general, it will always involve encountering stress. I remember once telling my doctor, during my annual physical, that I was wanting to reduce the stress in my life. He knows that I pastor a church and asked, how was I going to that-retire?

Therefore, I have come to the conclusion, unlike a physical condition that could be a temporary situation, stress is here to stay. Since I am not going to change what I do in life as far as work is concerned, I one day determined in my heart to learn how to reduce the stress level in my world.

Now, one good motivator to learn how to reduce stress is this thought: Reducing stress will lengthen your life! All kinds of things can develop due to stress, such as for example, your heart, blood pressure, and even your cholesterol level to name a few, can be effected due to not learning how to reduce the stress in your life.

There are numerous ways that are very effective in reducing stress, and in this article I want to share with someone what helps relieve the stress level in my life. First of all, I am married to a wonderful woman, who is my best friend, who is always in my corner. She is on my side, and is there for me when I need moral support when things get rough. However, I have found that it is good to have a friend that you can relate to besides your spouse. I have been blessed with a older pastor,who is a father figure to me, a mentor, who I can call and talk to, which helps me to deal with stressful issues. Also, going to church, participating in the services has helped me to deal or reduce my stress level. The idea of just being with other people has a way of relieving stress in a person’s life. Many times I have gone to a church service with a heavy load on my mind, but was helped, able to better cope with what was going on in my world, the stress for a short time had gone away. I must include, that what greatly reduces my stress level is my daily prayer and Bible reading.

The next two techniques that have always worked for me, which I enjoy very much, is a great stress reducer for me. I love being around children. They have a way of helping you to forget everything that may be going wrong in your life. Perhaps a phone call to one of my children or the children in my church will come and give me a hug, and tell me that they love me. This has never failed to help me deal better with the current stress in my life. Then, there is my extended family, my dogs and cats. My pets, these friends of mine have always been able to reduce the stress in my life. I do have a indoor cat named Aaron or I should say Sir Aaron. He is not your typical independent cat. But, he needs my attention, and I must say that I need his attention as well. On any given day, Aaron will jump on my lap and purr himself asleep. Once in a while he will pat me with his paw as though he is telling me, it’s going to be alright.

Here are a couple of other ways I have found useful in helping to reduce stress in my world. I have discovered that playing a game on the computer, such as solitaire, helps reduce stress. Now, this next technique is going to seem hard to believe. I have three acres of grass that I mow, and cutting the lawn has become a great stress reducer for me. When I am on my riding lawn mower, this has become my outlet of getting away or occupying mind on something else other than the stress related issues in my life.

I know that we are all different individuals who deal with stress on an on going basis. Also, I acknowledge the fact that what may help reduce stress in one person may not work in another. But, the important thing to remember is this, find something that does help you to reduce your stress. Your life depends on it.

Hello, my name is M. Lee Miller. I am married to a beautiful woman named Elizabeth. We have four wonderful children and three fantastic grandchildren. I have a Doctorate in Theology and a Ph.D in Religion. I have been in the ministry for 30 years and a pastor for over nine years. I really enjoy life and the opportunities that I have had in trying to help others during difficult periods in their lives.

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The major factor that distracts an alcohol rehabilitation procedure is the environment. If the alcoholic does not feel comfortable or neglected, he will search out escape routes. If the people carrying out the rehabilitation procedures are not caring or the alcoholic feels uncomfortable, he or she may act as if they have rehabilitated just to end the procedure. Alternatively, they may react violently towards the people carrying out the rehabilitation procedures.

An alcoholic has reached this state definitely because of some reason. The only way to rehabilitate him or her is by making them desire for rehabilitation. The rehabilitation cannot be forced. Either alcoholics will require rehabilitation because they may lose their lives if they are not rehabilitated, or they are suffering from a health problem caused by consuming too much alcohol.

However, whatever may be the case it’s the alcoholic’s own will power that will do the trick. An alcoholic must have the will to live and to stop drinking. This is what a rehabilitation procedure is supposed to do. If the recovering alcoholic cannot get on with the psychiatrist or psychologist, how is he going to recover? If he feels that he is devoted with insufficient time, he’s not going to recover.

If after rehabilitation, he has to go back to the same environment. Facing the same set of social and family problems, he will return to drinking. Therefore, a number of factors matter in a rehabilitation procedure. First is the attitude of the staff of the rehabilitation center. They must recognise that an alcoholic is a disease like any other disease, and requires proper nursing and care.

They must not be treated with disdain or like social outcasts. They should not be made to feel rebellious. In fact, they must be treated as normal human beings. Alcoholics are human beings who are suffering from an acute problem! Secondly, the atmosphere of the rehabilitation center must be serene and soothing. However, most important is getting the alcoholic to speak about what drives them to alcohol, and how can this urge be removed.

The family plays a major role in this. Family support, acceptance, and spending time in good company are what an alcoholic needs. The alcoholic may be deeply disturbed and may feel a sense of loneliness. Having no responsibilities, an ample income and nothing to do can drive a person to alcohol. There are no wonder cures for this ailment and even the best rehabilitation procedures can fail.

The doctors can be the best, the atmosphere friendly and serene. Yet the rehabilitation procedure can fail. Until the alcoholic is not ready to change and has the will to change, the procedure is doomed to fail.

Rehabilitation requires building a one on one relationship with an alcoholic. Getting them first to speak about what drives them to drink, then building their will power to leave drinking and making them mentally strong. This is what will work. An alcoholic must genuinely believe in change. Only when they develop this attitude, the rehabilitation procedure will work. One on one session group therapy and other procedures can fail if the alcoholic refuses to budge mentally.

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Everybody has experienced nightmares at some point in their lives. They are experiences that can be very frightening and incredibly disturbing. The feeling when awoken is of relief and the thought that it was only a bad dream nothing more. However, the feelings and images of these nightmares can frighten some people for the whole day or even for years.

What causes nightmares has been studied and discussed for thousands of years and unfortunately even with the most modern technology the scientists haven’t been able to come up with a precise answer for this question.

Nightmares can be caused by physical conditions that affect health. Stress is one of the causes for nightmares. If someone is under extreme stress, nightmares are a way that Mother Nature finds to release all the pressure suffered by the dreamer.

Post-traumatic stress disorders can also cause the individual to have nightmares. This is where someone has been through some kind of event that caused emotional or physical trauma. The memories and feelings about that specific event can cause sleeping disorders, especially nightmares.

Worries are also a big trigger for nightmares. If someone is worried about something at a particular time then it is very likely they will have a nightmare around that time. Some people are classed as ‘worriers’. With constant worrying about something they are the most affected ones as they are likely to have regular nightmares.

Nightmares can also be genetic; studies showed that individuals with frequent nightmares have a family history of similar sleeping disturbances.

Childhood is when nightmares are the most common because this is a time of our emotional development when we all have to come to terms with, well, raw, primitive emotions such as aggression and rage.

The imbalance of our emotions can also cause us to have frequent nightmares. Primitive emotions such as rage and aggression, profound resentment, excessive fear and an over competitive character may trigger frequent nightmares.

There are some techniques you can use to ease frequent nightmares. You must try this every night until the problem is resolved.

- Write down your nightmare in as much detail as you can remember. Tell the whole story even if it is extremely scary.

- Try to end the story of your nightmare with a happy ending. Do not include violence of any sort when writing the story. Keep it as peaceful and compassionate as you can. Don’t forget that you are working with raw emotions and trying to turn them into more refined emotions.

- After you finish writing the new story, go through it in your head over and over again. You must do this every night straight after you go to bed. Don’t do anything in between as it will weaken this powerful technique. Do it when you go to bed so you are not tempted to do things in between.

- Then do some relaxation exercises. You can choose anyone that you are comfortable with such a yoga, meditation, or breathing exercises.

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