More and more teenagers are drinking alcohol these days. By the time they graduate from high school, almost all adolescents report having tried alcohol at some point before the age of fourteen and that they acquire the substance from other students at school or the parents of their peers. Every year thousands of ... Read More
Becoming The Comeback Kid
When President Clinton was running for office his chances were pretty low. He fought hard and in the end won, both a presidency and a new nickname, “The Comeback Kid”. President Bill Clinton doesn’t have a monopoly on that nickname. You can claim it too by coming back from rehab as a woman or man with a plan, a heavy ... Read More
It’s Time We Understand that Addicts are People Too
Our society has an incredible bias against people who are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. The stigma permeates through pop culture, politics, and everyday life. If we want to make drug addiction a thing of the past, let's start by reducing this stigma. The Crow My first exposure to heroin was via a 1994 ... Read More
You Need Other People in Your Life
Avoiding people as a recovering addict can be dangerous behavior. Upon their return from a medically supervised alcohol detox, addiction recovery treatment, and inpatient rehab, many healing addicts try to avoid those who love them, their friends and family, due to the shame that addiction can bring along with it. ... Read More
Stay Calm and Support Your Addicted Teen
You’ve just found out that your teenager has an addiction to drugs or alcohol, or maybe both. Maybe you caught them with the substance, maybe you even caught them high or drunk. Hopefully they came to you for help voluntarily. Either way there are some things you must keep in mind to get through this incredibly ... Read More
The Truth About Opioids and Opiates
These days you can hardly escape reporting about the opioid crisis in the United States. They call it an epidemic because of the high number of casualties as a result of widespread opioid prescription, availability and abuse. Overdose is a real problem as opioids attach themselves to the opioid receptors in the brain. ... Read More
How to Support Your Teenager in The Face of Addiction
Teenage addiction is such a hard issue to face. For both the young adult in question and the parent or guardian. Teenagers are facing just as many societal pressures, if not more, as adults are. They are staring down the hurdle of post high school success, whether to them that means getting into a great college with ... Read More
You Need a Plan for Stress Relief
If you know someone who has struggled with addiction, or you have struggled with it yourself you may already know how stress can affect the person prone to drug or alcohol abuse. You may know the way stress can lead back to the substance that so easily controls an addict, especially when they are vulnerable, even after ... Read More