Heroin is an addictive drug that is medically used as a pain reliever but according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, 586,000 Americans aged 12 and older have struggled with heroin addiction. While it [...]
“This is Us” is an Emmy-winning family show on NBC about a group of triplets who are born on the same day as their father. We see the dynamic between their relationships growing up. On [...]
Addiction can happen to anyone. Even athletes like Brett Favre who had a successful football career was tackling Vicodin addiction and alcoholism. Brett Favre recently opened up about his battle with addiction which helps break [...]
OxyContin is a popular painkiller that is known for relieving chronic pain for twelve hours but is easily abused. Oceana, West Virginia, a small town of 1,500 people, is also nicknamed “Oxyana” because of the [...]
ADHD affects the behaviors of kids when they are in school as they are not able to pay attention, are hyperactive, and impulsive. Stimulants like amphetamine and methylphenidate are prescribed to control their behavior and [...]
If you have alcohol in your system, you should never get behind the wheel. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 28 people die everyday from drunk driving which is one death every [...]
People who are in long-term recovery do not always get the credit that is due to them. There are so many misconceptions about addiction that need to be brought to light so that more can [...]
From the beginning of Purdue Pharma, the risk of addiction in opioid painkillers was unknown. Now, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 115 people die from opioid addiction a day. On February [...]
It is common for employers to take a 5-panel drug test so that they can test you for the five common misused drugs. Then there are tests that look for ten drugs that could be [...]
Smoking addiction occurs when nicotine affects your brain to make you feel pleasure energy. The buzz is short-lived which makes you want to smoke cigarettes more and more. Cigarette smoke can potentially ruin every organ. [...]
