Morphine has been around since 1803 when Civil War soldiers would develop an addiction with this painkiller. The 1970s family series Little House on the Prairie episode, Home Again, was an episode ahead of its [...]
Triggers to relapse is anything that can make you want to give up your sobriety and fall back to bad habits. It is normal when you first start sobriety to slip back to abusive substances [...]
We need food in order to live as we need a certain amount of nutrients to last us throughout the day. Because we know how good food can taste, what we eat can be as [...]
When someone says to you “I’m addicted to Pringles,” they do not really mean that they are addicted. It just means that they really like them. If eating Pringles can have harmful effects towards someone’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
