THE REAL REASONS WHY MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER ARE DYING FROM DRUGS, ALCOHOL,...
Experts break down the top reasons why hundreds of thousands continue to die from these causes with every passing year.
In America, a quiet catastrophe...
LIVING BEYOND – WHY STAY SOBER?
WHY STAY SOBER?
The struggle of an addict is like non other. For the addict and those intimately involved with the addict, the angst that comes...
LIVING BEYOND – DEBUNKING THE MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH ADDICTION
Early on in my career, I had the privilege of working with a variety of addicts and addictive behaviors. As a therapist, I soon discovered that there is a...
PURDUE PHARMA- WHEN WILL JUSTICE BE SERVED?
As a Registered Nurse, if I gave my patient a drug that resulted in their death, I would be held accountable.
April 17,2018- one passenger is killed when an engine malfunctions on...
DIFFERENT BEHAVIORS, SIMILAR ISSUES: THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SELF-INJURY AND SUBSTANCE USE
Children as young as 3 years of age are doing it.
Adults who do this are 37 times more likely to attempt suicide in a one-year period.
You have 12-months to intervene before...
TRUTHS ABOUT BARRIERS TO TREATMENT FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM ADDICTIVE ILLNESS
This business of being a psychotherapist and the mother of an adult son with a co occurring disorder is not easy. My patients and I are slogging through cement all in...
THE LATEST TREND IN GEN Z: ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
When Milly’s father called, he discovered Milly’s dark secret. He tried to be a compassionate and attentive father as she broke down in tears and explained what was going on. Devastated...
STONED BABIES AND UNDERACHIEVING ADULTS
Physicians and medical professionals routinely warn women not to use marijuana while they are pregnant or nursing. Why? The best available scientific evidence has established that exposure to marijuana’s psychoactive constituent,...
MY FIRST ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETING
I went to my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting long before I was an alcoholic. On a summer evening, when I was in my 30’s, after dinner with my parents at their...
SHOULD YOU STAY OR GO WHEN YOUR SPOUSE IS STRUGGLING WITH SUD? ONE PERSON’S...
I believe that the best chance an individual with a use disorder has to survive and thrive comes from the healthy involvement of their family in the recovery process.
Of course, not...
