When a person who has struggled with drug or alcohol addiction comes home from a florida detox and wellness center, it can be easy to forget for both the person as well as their families and communities that there is still a lot of work for them to be doing in order to continue remaining sober. Addiction is a chronic ... Read More
Addiction News
We believe strongly in the use of emerging technology to treat addictions and disorders. In our addiction news section we cover breaking addiction and mental health related news. This includes national drug crime news to identify trends as well as measures being taken by local governments to affect change in their area. By recognizing success and failures across the country we believe that we can keep the community informed on the most important behavioral health news.
Why Relapse Happens And Finally Staying Sober After Going Back to Rehab
Another Talent Lost Due to the Grip of Substance Abuse
Once again, another prolific artist has died from a suspected drug overdose, this time rapper Mac Miller. Miller died at only 26. Miller’s struggles with drugs were no secret, and in many ways his death was tragically predictable. We need to take a moment to ask ourselves why that is. How can a musician like Miller who ... Read More
Understanding the Risk of Relapse and The Necessity for Relapse Prevention Therapy
Relapse is not necessarily a reflection on the success or failure of the treatment someone struggling with addiction has had in the past. Addiction is a chronic disease that, like many other chronic diseases, can result in relapse as someone is trying to recover. There are other chronic diseases that need constant ... Read More
What You Need To Know About Homelessness and Addiction
People often assume that homeless people are always homeless and always chemically dependent on some kind of addictive substance. There’s a deep stigma around being homeless. But the truth is that people are usually only homeless for a period of time and that the homeless community ebbs and flows with different people ... Read More
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
Awareness of the dangers of pharmaceutical opioids is thankfully growing. Doctors are becoming reluctant to use opioids in cases where other routes have not been pursued first. One of the most effective ways to avoid abusing drugs is to not have them around. The DEA runs a great program to collect and properly dispose ... Read More
Multiple Overdoses of K2 Results in Public Health Alert
Recently there has been an enormous uptick in the number of people overdosing from the synthetic drug K2. At the time of this writing, nearly 80 people have overdosed near Yale University. Thankfully there haven't been any fatalities in this current crisis, however there was a death from a similar but smaller streak in ... Read More
Dostoevsky & The Idiot’s Guide to Stopping to Smell The Roses for Successful Sober Living
It’s easy to feel dragged down in your journey of substance abuse recovery. If you’re just starting to get help for your addiction to drugs and alcohol it may feel like you’re looking down the road at a destination that you will never meet. If you are just getting started at our addiction recovery center in Florida, ... Read More
First Responders to the New Haven Overdose Praised by Experts at FHE Health
Sherief Moustafa, Founder of FHE Health, commends the first responders called to the New Haven Green in historic New Haven, Connecticut. The event is likely the largest mass overdose in state history with more than 70 victims in a 24-hour period, several of those suffering from life-threatening conditions. “When ... Read More