Are we doing our best in the addiction treatment industry?
The question of whether we are doing our best in addiction treatment industry, is an issue of decency and human kindness. It cannot be addressed in facts and figures, spreadsheets and...
Seven Reasons Addiction and Trauma Are Related – A Strong Relationship
The field of addiction is becoming more and more aware of the connection between addiction and trauma. This relationship is a vital one. Research has proven this. Studies have shown that...
DEPRESSION AND ADDICTION
Many individuals with addiction to alcohol or other drugs also suffer from co-occurring depressive disorders. When someone has both disorders independently of the other, each is considered a “primary disorder.” Alternatively,...
Addiction Alongside Other Mental Health Disorders
Addiction to drugs or alcohol often coexists with one or more other mental health conditions. A 2018 study found that nearly 48% of American adults with a substance use disorder had...
Substance Use and Risk-taking Behaviors – What Parents Need to Know
“It could be the ugliest person in the world; someone we wouldn’t think twice about if we were sober, but we’d go to bed with if we were high or intoxicated.”...
Alcoholic Hell: One Drink Too Many
Channeling writers William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, Josh Brolin, in a brutally honest Instagram rant, described his passage into alcoholic hell:
Drunk: when you think you’re having...
The Truth About Why Your Brain Drives Your Behavior and Addiction
Richard, 38 years old, had gone to twelve addiction treatment programs and failed every one of them. He really wanted to quit. He went to AA but was so...
Is Alcoholism More Difficult to Treat than other Diseases?”
Alcohol can certainly be more challenging to treat than other substances for several reasons. One is that it there is a longer continuum that is affected by genetic and...
Saving Your Loved Ones from Addiction By Treating the Disease in the Brain and...
Across America today, families are faced with unparalleled challenges from social media, peer pressure, financial insecurity, health issues, pervasive anxiety and inordinate stress which opens the door to darkness...
Naltrexone Therapy for Addiction Recovery
This opioid blocking agent can save lives.
What is Naltrexone Therapy?
Naltrexone is non-addictive/non-narcotic FDA approved medication that blocks the brain’s receptors for...
