You’ve probably heard of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. But Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is only one in a handful of disorders caused by alcohol exposure during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders is a term for a number of conditions caused by the effects of a fetus’s exposure to alcohol while in utero. The National ... Read More
You Can Find Relief and Healing from PTSD
You’ve probably heard of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a mental health diagnosis that makes it into pop culture media that often shuns mentions of mental health, but that’s a different blog post. In movies or television we see the broken veteran with shell shock, the abused domestic who is afraid to ... Read More
Heroin Use and Abuse Explained
What is Heroin? Heroin is an opioid. Opioids are drugs meant to reproduce the effects of opium on the body, a substance that can be made from poppy plants. People use heroin by injecting the usually milky substance under the skin, or in the vein, snorting the powder form of the drug up their nose, or smoking heroin, ... Read More
Robert Downey Jr.’s Struggle with Addiction
Robert Downey Jr. is a rare example of a celebrity comeback, after a very public battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In the early 2000’s we didn’t see a whole lot of work come to our big screens from The Wonder Boys actor. But these days Robert Downey Jr. is one of the highest paying actors due to his work on Iron ... Read More
Opioid Epidemic in The USA Pt 2. From Prescription to Overdose
While the current opioid crisis in the United States does include a considerable problem with heroin addiction and overdose, much of the addiction plaguing our society right now is due to the use of opiates that are prescribed for pain medication. Though doctors were hesitant to prescribe opiates due to risk of ... Read More
Opioid Epidemic in the USA Pt. 1: How did we get here?
Opioids are everywhere in the United States. With congress, even our president, calling out the need to fight our current “Opioid Epidemic” it’s hard not to ask the questions: so how did we get here, and is it really as serious as it sounds? Since before the US Civil War opioids have been used for pain relievers. As ... Read More
Demi Lovato’s Journey Through and Back Into Drug Addiction
Demi Lovato has made her struggle with addiction a matter of public knowledge. She even made a Youtube documentary about the subject called, Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated where she lets her fans in to her personal world of struggling for years with drug and alcohol addiction. Teen Drug and Alcohol ... Read More
Celebrities are at High Risk for Overdose
It is a pretty well known fact that a lot of celebrities die from overdosing or due to addiction related health problems. You’re at a higher risk for drug problems just by being a famous person. Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Jim Morrison, all legends and all of them died too young due to an overdose. In the last ... Read More
