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
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Encouraging An Addict: How to Actively Support Your Loved one Through Addiction Recovery in Florida
Sometimes it’s hard to know what to say to a friend who has been struggling with an addiction of some kind. It can feel like no matter what you do or what you say it won’t be enough, or could even make the person feel worse than they likely already do. The most important thing to remember however, in spite of how ... Read More
Codeine, The Opiate Opioid That No One Is Talking About
Codeine is a seemingly innocent opioid that doctors frequently prescribe to people who suffer from mild to medium amounts of pain. Physicians also prescribe it as a way to treat severe bouts of diarrhea. However the most common usage of codeine is when a doctor prescribes the drug in the form of a cough syrup to treat ... Read More
How So Many Women Develop Eating Disorders During College
Our society still forces women into the terrible position of becoming obsessed with their bodies, because to be otherwise is looked at as some kind of personal neglect. As girls grow up and move through school body shaming gets pretty serious. Around middle school, as women move through puberty it becomes brutal, and ... Read More
Methamphetamine, More Than Just ‘Breaking Bad’
Meth is a household name after it was the major plot point in the television series Breaking Bad which aired between 2008 and 2013. It was easy to watch that show and let the drug almost become romanticised. But there’s nothing romantic about a person who is struggling with a chemical dependence on methamphetamine. ... Read More
The Eating Disorder and Substance Abuse Dual Diagnosis
Eating disorders are a well documented and wide reaching issue among people living in Florida and the throughout the wider United States. Approximately 8 million citizens in the United States suffer from documented cases of some kind of eating disorder and that is only what we know about. Surely thousands of other ... Read More
The Details of Benzodiazepine Addiction
Not all prescription drug addictions are an addiction to opioid medications. In fact, many people who struggle with an addiction to drugs and alcohol suffer from a dependency on a kind of drug called benzodiazepine, or tranquilizers. This kind of addiction offers a calming effect to the addicted party. Tranquilizers ... Read More
The Signs, Symptoms and Suffering of Heroin Addiction
We hear frequently about the opioid epidemic that is plaguing not only Florida, but the wider United States, and the world as a whole. According to the World Health Organization “Roughly 450,000 people died as a result of drug use in 2015. Of those deaths, about 160 thousands were directly associated with drug use ... Read More
