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Many factors in a person’s life, during the COVID-19 pandemic, can cause them to binge drink. Isolation, anxiety, stress, boredom, and depression can compel people to drink more than they usually do to ease these feelings and provide release. According to a March survey from YouGov, people who live in the western US are 25 […]
California Highlands Exempt From CA COVID-19 Executive Order California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order telling citizens to stay in place to avoid the further spread of COVID-19 in an emergency press conference on Thursday. The order applies to all California citizens and requires them to stay home and avoid leaving their homes except […]
How COVID-19 Stress Is Affecting Binge Drinking Many factors in a person’s life, during the COVID-19 pandemic, can cause them to binge drink. Isolation, anxiety, stress, boredom, and depression can compel people to drink more than they usually do to ease these feelings and provide release. According to a March survey from YouGov, people who […]
How Women Became Affected By Opioid Epidemic As the government begins to fan the spark for treatment programs, opioid addictions continue to elude these initiatives as studies show just how vast this drug trend is. In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report that correlated the widespread of prescription drugs […]
What Is Hypnotherapy And Does It Work? From Kipling’s Kaa to swinging pendulums, popular culture has been fascinated by the ancient practice of hypnotism for hundreds of years. This pseudoscience survived (and grew) during the enlightenment of the 18th century. It was widely used in the Civil War and later in the wars of the […]
Toxic Relationships In Recovery Those Still Sick and Suffering in This Room Many people equate toxic relationships to active addiction and using. Typically when we are engaging in dangerous activities like abusing drugs and alcohol, our overall ability to make good decisions is severely impaired. But what about once we get sober? Toxic relationships in […]
What Is Synthetic Drug Abuse And How Is It Affecting Its Users? Where Do Synthetic Drugs Come From? The production of synthetic drugs, also known as designer drugs, requires chemical engineering to mock the effects of controlled substances. What distinguishes these drugs from drugs like heroin or cocaine, is that they are, for the most […]
How To Support Someone In Addiction Recovery There are plenty of people in the United States who can easily name a person in their life suffering from an addiction, be it a family member, friend, partner, neighbor, or coworker. In the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), as sponsored by the Substance […]
The Stigma Of Addiction: The Evolution Of Discrimination Addicts and their families are all too familiar with the stigma of addiction. Society has painted addicts, whether in recovery or not, as criminals, thugs, and overall miscreants. Instead of looking at addicts as people who are sick and suffering, they’re consistently demonized. It is this stigma […]
SMART Recovery® Offers Another Way To Address Addiction The decision to overcome addiction starts with the person who is battling dependence on drugs and/or alcohol. And if the decision to get clean didn’t necessarily start with the person, it certainly will end with him or her making an effort to live clean and sober. Some […]
