You'll find expert guidance and support here to understand, treat and overcome any type of addiction with evidence-based advice from our specialists. Our comprehensive resources cover everything from recognising addiction signs to maintaining long-term recovery, helping you take positive steps forward. Beating Addictions is here to help.
Creating a Support Network
Building a support network around someone recovering from addiction makes the detoxification process easier and less isolating.
Step-By-Step Brain Path to Addiction
How addiction rewires your brain's reward system and why it's a medical condition, not a personal failure.
Medical Help to Beat an Addiction
Your GP and mental health professionals can help you overcome addiction through treatment, referrals and support.
Memory Training to Treat Addiction
Memory training helps people with addiction by reducing their preference for immediate rewards over long-term benefits.
Step-By-Step Brain Path to Addiction
How addiction rewires your brain's reward system and why it's a medical condition, not a personal failure.
Youngest Victims of Addiction
Kids struggle with addiction through prescription medications and living with addicted parents, often overlooked as victims themselves.
Overcome an Addiction to Plastic Surgery
When plastic surgery becomes an obsession, it can damage self-esteem and mental health, here's how to recognise and break the cycle.
Uncommon Drug Addictions and How to Stop
Over-the-counter and prescription drugs can become addictive problems that often go unrecognized or overlooked by many people.
Rebuilding Your Life After Addiction
Getting your life back on track after addiction means rebuilding trust with loved ones and stabilising the parts of your life that matter most.
What Is Work Addiction?
Work addiction can kill you just like any other addiction, and it's often hidden because our culture celebrates overwork.
Addiction Treatment Centers: What to Expect
In-patient addiction treatment works best for people who can't function daily, have failed other options, or pose a risk to themselves or others.
Addiction and Teen Aggression
Research shows teenagers addicted to the internet are more likely to display aggressive behaviour like hitting or threatening others.
Addiction and Genes
Addiction involves both genetic vulnerability and personal choice, with treatment working best when it addresses biology alongside personal responsibility.