How To Stay Sober After a Break-Up
Breaking Up is Hard to Do There are few things in life as emotionally devastating as breaking up with someone you care for deeply and have long-since fostered a meaningful connection with. For those ...
How to Get Your Parent Into Addiction Treatment
Coping With An Addicted Loved One As children, we look to our parents as role models. We mimic their behavior, assuming that they are all-knowing and essentially unflawed. As we get older, we begin ...
What to Do If You Overdose from Cocaine
Cocaine, more commonly referred to as “coke,” is a potent stimulant drug that is frequently used in a recreational setting. The National Institute on Drug Abuse notes that cocaine is classified as a Schedule ...
How Gratitude Lists Help Opiate Addiction Recovery
When it comes to maintaining sobriety for any extended period of time, staying grateful is absolutely key. Falling into a deep pit of self-pity can be dangerous, seeing as we usually tend to dig ...
10 Tips for Staying Positive in Heroin Addiction Recovery
Over the course of the past two decades, heroin abuse and addiction rates have skyrocketed nationwide, and heroin overdose is now one of the leading causes of accidental death across the country. A report ...
The Truth About PTSD and Opiate Abuse
Over the course of the past decade, more and more information regarding post-traumatic stress disorder and opiate abuse has been uncovered. All of the information points towards concrete evidence that the two are closely ...
What Are Addiction Treatments for Dual Diagnosis?
Dual diagnosis addiction refers to the comorbidity of a substance abuse disorder and a mental illness. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 45 percent of American adults struggling with addiction ...
How to Tell If Your Friend Is Abusing Alcohol
The impacts of alcoholism are extremely far-reaching - excessive drinking doesn’t just affect the person who is doing it, it affects their friends, coworkers, family members and significant others. If you’re friends with someone ...
Top 10 Reasons to Quit Cocaine
Cocaine is an illicit stimulant drug, known for increasing alertness and causing hyperactivity and lowering inhibitions. Cocaine comes in several different forms, though it most commonly comes as a white powder which is ingested ...
Relapse Prevention – Dealing With Highly Triggered Areas: Holiday Parties
No matter what time of the year it is - summer, spring, winter or fall - it seems there is always something to celebrate. While fall and winter are unarguably the most holiday-heavy times ...
