Seeking Addiction and Mental Health Help with Union Coverage Today, most unions in this country offer healthcare policies that support employees with a substance abuse problem or a mental health condition. Thanks to these policies, many union members have access to more affordable and comprehensive mental health and ... Read More
Search Results for: trauma
Causes of Schizophrenia
Updated June 13, 2023 A serious mental disorder, schizophrenia causes affected people to view events in their life abnormally. Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thought are characteristic of schizophrenia. Living with schizophrenia is challenging, as daily functioning can be severely impaired. For several ... Read More
Drug Profile: Tizanidine Abuse
Like many other prescription FDA-approved medications, tizanidine can be addictive. Tizanidine is not a narcotic. The drug is considered to be a muscle relaxer that helps to reduce pain, but in a different way than a narcotic. Rather than binding to pain receptors in the central nervous system, tizanidine blocks pain ... Read More
Understanding Bulimia
Eating disorders are some of the most challenging types of mental illness present. You need to eat to live, but eating because of your emotions and then purging what you eat over the fear of gaining weight is not healthy — it’s dangerous. About 0.3 percent of the adult US population suffers from bulimia nervosa, ... Read More
Top Women’s Health Concerns When Coming to Treatment: An Interview with Director of Nursing Victoria Hernandez
Of the roughly 7-10 million Americans who needed treatment for co-occurring mental health conditions in 2008, according to an estimate by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, women represented nearly half of that number, a study in the Journal of Addictions Nursing reported. Today those figures have ... Read More
5 Benefits of Self-Care for Mothers in Recovery
As a mother in recovery, I have had quite the experience of raising two beautiful children while also working a full-time job and maintaining my sobriety. Recovery is full of ups and downs for all of us, and especially adventurous for the mothers in recovery. By nature, mothers are often nurturing, compassionate ... Read More
Could a Recreation Therapy Treatment Plan Help With Addiction?
Does Therapy Help? Addiction affects every person differently. It may take years of use to become addicted to a substance, or the user may fall in love with a substance on the first use. This also applies to therapy used once in recovery from the addiction. There are many types, and it may take a couple tries to find ... Read More
7 Tips to Quit Drinking, From the Experts
In a recent year, more than 14 million U.S. adults reported having an alcohol use disorder, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The NIAAA also reports that an estimated 443,000 teens also suffer from this condition. "Alcohol use disorder" (AUD), or alcoholism, occurs when a ... Read More