How to Prevent Addiction and Depression Relapse While Battling Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
1090 words|5.5 min read|Seasonal Affective Disorder is a mood disorder caused by changes in weather, particularly major seasonal shifts. Individuals who experience abnormally low moods, lethargy and depressive symptoms [...]
Does Drug and Alcohol Abuse Cause Anxiety?
880 words|4.4 min read|Everyone experiences symptoms of stress and anxiety from time to time, but those with persistent, long lasting symptoms are often diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. [...]
Can You Experience Withdrawal Symptoms After MAT?
765 words|3.8 min read|You might be surprised to learn that when you take the first step towards sobriety and reach out to a recovery center, the next step in [...]
How Can I Support a Family Member Battling Addiction?
952 words|4.8 min read|People are given painkillers for a number of reasons – perhaps they suffer from chronic pain; maybe they are recovering from extensive surgery. Whatever the [...]
What Do I Need To Do To Stop Painkiller Abuse?
896 words|4.5 min read|Medical doctors can prescribe painkillers for a number of reasons including mild to severe chronic pain and post-surgical pain management. However this common usage of [...]
Most Commonly Abused Painkillers in Today’s World
719 words|3.6 min read|How often have you popped another Advil after the first one didn’t work well enough to take your headache away? Now, imagine if each Advil [...]
What Does Painkiller Addiction Look Like?
802 words|4 min read|Following surgery, after a serious injury or in response to a diagnosis of chronic pain, doctors may prescribe painkiller medication to their patient(s). While this [...]
Methadone Treatment for Veterans Struggling with Addiction
735 words|3.7 min read|Addiction is a complex, multifaceted issue that looks a little different for everyone. For veterans, military trauma often plays a large role in the development [...]
How Prevalent is Addiction Among Veterans?
779 words|3.9 min read|Statistics show that veterans have a higher rate of developing a substance use disorder than the general population, as men and women in the military [...]
The Importance of Aftercare Following Methadone Treatment
727 words|3.6 min read|So you’re in the final stretch of the treatment process, wrapping up your methadone treatment and getting ready to step into the aftercare phase. Then [...]
What is Aftercare, and Why is It Important in Recovery?
669 words|3.3 min read|Once you’ve made it through each phase of your recovery journey from detox to various forms of therapy to follow, you have hit the “home [...]
The Fentanyl Epidemic: Causes and Commonly Laced Drugs
793 words|4 min read|Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s similar to morphine, but over 50 times stronger. It can be pharmaceutically or illicitly manufactured and is extremely addictive and [...]