It is surprising how our surroundings can leave an impact on our mental health. When we think of mental health, automatically we think of craziness, insanity, madness, and so on,… Read more »
How the Environment Effects Mental Health
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OASI Foundation and Caritas Malta express their concern about the reformed cannabis bill
In a joint statement, OASI Foundation and Caritas Malta expressed their concerns about the cannabis reformed bill. You can read the article here.Times of Malta
Medicinal Cannabis… Myth or Miracle?
Substance use is becoming more and more normalised, where society’s approach towards drug use is changing quite fast. This abruptness by which societal change takes place does not always ripple… Read more »
Youths 4 Youths
OASI is a non-governmental and not-for- profit organisation with its headquarters in Victoria Gozo. Its operations are deep rooted in the social needs and care of the people with a… Read more »
Drug Dependence
What happens during drug dependence and what are the leading factors? There are in fact several factors which contribute to substance dependence, including societal, biological, environmental factors, age of first… Read more »
Eating Disorders: What Are They?
Eating disorders are increasingly on the rise. This is worrying as studies show that young people between the ages of 15 and 24 who suffer from anorexia are 10 times… Read more »
The 12 Steps 6-12
The following are Step 6 to Step 12. At OASI, these steps are worked with a sponsor or their counselor once a person finishes the residential program. This does… Read more »
The 12 Steps 1-5
The 12-step recovery program was originally created in the 1930s and its main focus was alcoholism. Since then, the program has been adapted to several types of addictions, including drugs… Read more »
Facts and myths of drugs
Nowadays whenever anyone wants to look up something, we have the Internet which easily accessed due to the advances technology has made. While this is a good thing, it can… Read more »
Common Fears in Recovery
Being afraid it a natural instinct, we all experience fear. Most active addicts will contemplate recovery as this is something new to them, and with new things, comes along new… Read more »
