There’s no shortage of therapy modalities or advice about addiction recovery. And as always, what works for one person, might not work for another. We agree with the research that says the most successful addiction treatment occurs when individual therapy is combined with group therapy. […]
We Love our job! How many people can say that and really mean it? Anyone who works in addiction treatment knows how difficult and painful it can be to work with patients who have lost their jobs, families, and self-esteem and sometimes feel like there’s […]
The teenage and young adult years have increasingly become a very stressful time. Up until about 50 years ago, high school was considered by many to be the best years of life, unsurpassed except for those fortunate enough to attend college. But today, the suicide […]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 52% of adults over the age of 18 in the United States are regular drinkers, and current statistics suggest that some 17.6 million Americans are alcoholics. Let’s take a look at the Alcohol Withdrawal […]
Drug addiction prevention is the key to saving lives, but overdose prevention is the next best thing when you can’t stop addicts from using. And California lawmakers agree. Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 635 into law in California, allowing Naloxone, also known as Narcan, […]
The latest drug to hit the emergency rooms is Desomorphine, also known as Krokodil Drug on the streets, but this one is as dangerous as it gets. Time Magazine calls it, “The World’s Most Dangerous Drug.” There’s never a shortage of ways people take illegal […]
How much time have you already spent worrying instead of doing something you love? What if you just had one more day, what would you do? Most of us take life for granted, that we have plenty of time left to do the things we […]
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that affects many things, most notably pleasure, which plays a role in our mental health. When the brain is functioning properly, we receive a positive reward in the form of pleasure from dopamine induced by eating, drinking, sex […]
This post was originally written in September 2013. Since that time, we have seen heroin go from a drug that was starting to show up in unlikely places to where we are today in the midst of a full-blown epidemic in the United States. Heroin […]
When changing your lifestyle, not only do you want to improve what you do but how you do it. You want to feel better about who you are, and one way to do that is by eating healthier. Granted, fast food and junk food is […]
