An important first step in addressing addiction is to recognize and accept how alcohol and substance use is impacting your life. But if you’re in denial about whether your alcohol and substance use is ...

Denial is the building block of all addiction: it enables addicts to continue in their addiction without seeking help. Denial isn't actually the addiction itself, but it rears its ugly head whenever ...

Addiction is an equal opportunity disease. It can affect the educated, the uneducated, the rich as well as the poor. What is certain is that it destroys families and society if left untreated.

In many codependent relationships, addiction is part of the relationship. In Ramona M. Asher's book "Women With Alcoholic Husbands: Ambivalence and the Trap of Codependency," the issue of the ...

Denial plays an important role in addiction. Addicts are notoriously prone to denial. Denial explains why drug use persists in the face of negative consequences (Pickard, 2016). Addiction cost them ...