The 2018 midterms were a massively impactful election on the side of electing Senators and House Representatives so it's understandable that a few of the results will fly under the radar, but there was one trend that was potentially massive. For another consecutive election, there were a handful of measures appearing ... Read More
How Addiction Affects Women Differently
Both men and women suffer from substance abuse. Neither one suffers more or less than the other, but they do suffer in different ways. If you are a woman, it is critical to understand exactly how addiction can impact your health. It plays a role in your emotional as well as physical health. Learn how addiction affects ... Read More
FDA Approves Controversial New Opioid Dsuvia
It's not news that there is currently a crisis in the United States relating to use and abuse of opioid medications, prescribed for pain at a rate that has climbed rapidly between the turn of the century and the present. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 46 people died per day from ... Read More
Treating Trauma: What Therapies and Treatments Work
Are you among the 223.4 million Americans who have has experienced some sort of traumatic event at least once in their lives? Do you live with the after-effects of a traumatic event, experience, or years of abuse? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) impacts an estimated five percent of all adults in the United ... Read More
Inhaled Heroin and other Recent Drug Trends
Chasing an ever increasing high, stories of individuals using drugs in new ways (or old ways in some cases) is creating even more devastating consequences. An individual hears about inhaling heroin, for example. She tries it, notices the intense high it creates. Her friends try it, too. Not the normal method, but it ... Read More
Recognizing Addiction in Your Family
Does someone in your family suffer from drug or alcohol addiction? If your family is like many others, you may answer this as no. But, what you may not realize is that addiction can happen to anyone and within any type of family environment. Recognizing addiction in your family is quite difficult to do. But, making the ... Read More
My Spouse Is An Addict: How Can I Help?
If you have a spouse struggling with addiction or living in active addiction, the impact on your own personal life can be equally as difficult as theirs is navigating their own struggle. Ultimately, you are pulled into the whirlwind that is the life of alcoholism or drug addiction because of your spouse’s actions, and ... Read More
Measuring the Severity of an Addiction
Addiction is a disease, and as with many other diseases like diabetes and cancer, the severity of addiction varies widely depending on a number of factors that substance abuse experts can measure using the addiction severity index, or ASI. Just like how some people with diabetes can manage their condition by making ... Read More