According to NCES 2, only 53 percent of children ages three to five were read to daily by a family member (1999). Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read to aloud everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above poverty.
There is more than hope for people with post-traumatic stress. Recovery can and does occur. Please do not rely on medication alone as it has no power to change the brain permanently. Effective cognitive-behavioral approaches -- which with repetition change the brain -- work in the vast majority of cases.
The majority of the symptoms experienced in withdrawal are physical and they go away with time. Coping techniques will not make the withdrawal symptoms go away but they can make the symptoms easier to tolerate. There is no one-way to cope with drug withdrawal. Each persons withdrawal is unique and each person is unique in the techniques from which they might benefit. The following are tips and resources that some of the group members have found to be especially helpful for dealing with the problems encountered in withdrawal.