Why Recovery Shouldn’t Be a Punishment
There is a tendency for many people, including potential clients themselves, to feel rehab should be a miserable, torturous experience – a type of purgatory in order to expunge the sin of addiction. In reality most addicts are disgusted and frustrated by their behaviour and the effect it is having on their life and the…
Would You Benefit From Rehab?
The stereotypical image of alcohol dependent individuals actually has little basis in reality. Although people commonly think alcoholics will be instantly identifiable by their drunken, dysfunctional behavior, chaotic lifestyle and serious health issues, in actual fact a large number of people who display alcoholic behavior are hard-working, respectable individuals who might live on the same…
5 Goals to Accomplish in 2024
As we settle into this New Year, we’re also probably getting a little more acquainted with the resolutions we made and the goals that we set. That’s if we haven’t forgotten about it all. It’s not that we need a New Year to change, but most of us just need to feel like we’re getting…
Links Between Hard Drugs & Prescription Drug Addictions
Most addictions start with abuse and our county is in the midst of a prescription painkiller epidemic. About 45 people die every day from overdose of opioid prescription painkillers such as Vicodin, Lortab, OxyContin, morphine and the list goes on. The overdose death rate from these painkillers are higher than cocaine and heroin overdoses combined….
Prescription Drug Addiction is a Gateway to Heroin Addiction
Prescription drug addiction has been a troubling problem that has grown rapidly over the past decade. This has led to more fatalities involving prescription drugs, and as a result the medical community has responded with new guidelines about how prescription drugs should be prescribed, particularly targeted towards stopping patients who doctor shop for prescription drugs….
Why Leah Messer Left ‘Teen Mom 2’
Reality shows have dramatically grown in popularity in the last decade. From Keeping Up With The Kardashians to the Real Housewives series media stars have been created from the cast of reality television shows. It seems like nowadays pretty much everyone can be a star, and one of the more popular recent reality shows has…
Solidifying Your Foundation is Everything in Recovery
When people descend into addiction, they often describe that time as a struggle because they had no foundation. This often means that they feel like they have nothing to live for, no foundation to build upon, and a deep loss of self-worth. Essentially, a person feels like their life doesn’t matter anymore, and when they…
Teen Abuse of Anxiety Meds Growing
The rising abuse of prescription drugs has been a growing concern, because of its rapid growth and rising number of fatalities over the past decade. But most of these overdoses seem to have involved painkillers that people grow addicted to when prescribed for chronic pain. However, another concern that has been growing is for teenagers…
How Antibodies Can Keep Addicts Off Meth
Meth has a reputation as being one of the worst drugs that anyone can become dependent on. The physical deterioration that meth addicts undergo is often chronicled in photographs to warn people off of drugs. Meth can be a very addictive drug because of how strongly it affects the central nervous system. Usually taken in…
Drug Prosecutions in San Francisco Decrease Violent Crime
The relationship between violent crime and drug use is a complex and controversial issue. The general belief is that the more drug use there is in an area the more violence there will be. In general the more drug abuse that goes on in the area may correlate with higher levels of unemployment and crime….