Being Addicted to Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a beautiful change to happen to a woman. You are holding life inside your belly with nine months until you can meet your child. For some women, it is just the idea of [...]
What Can Parents Do to Prevent Their Children from Being Admitted for Drug Overdoses?
When we look at the drug statistics for common opioid overdoses, we tend to think of adults. The truth is that for the past eleven years, teens and children have been admitted to the hospital [...]
How to Stop Eating Addictive Foods
Just like drugs and alcohol are addictive, food can be too. Eating refined carbs like white flour and sugar as well as added fat give you a rush of blood sugar in your system which [...]
How President Trump Intends to Tackle the Opioid Crisis
In 2016, The CDC said that 42,000 people were killed by prescription opioids, fentanyl, and heroin which is more than any year. On October 26, 2017, President Trump declared the opioid crisis as a public [...]
What Do Alcoholics Die Of?
Alcoholism can be devastating not just for the one suffering from addiction but for the friends and family of that person too. According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, 88,000 people in the [...]
Dianna De La Garza Talks of Family’s Addiction and Mental Illness
There have been a lot of memoirs about people battling their own addictions. This memoir, “Falling with Wings: A Mother’s Story,” is about Demi Lovato’s mother, Dianna De La Garza, coming clean about her family’s [...]
Kratom Is Declared an Opioid by the FDA
There are drugs that have been approved by the FDA is help relieve the symptoms of opioid addiction like Naltrexone, buprenorphine, and methadone. Over time, what someone can think is good for society can turn [...]
What to Do If Your Friend Overdoses in Front of You
Drug overdoses can be very scary to see as overdoses always have the potential to be fatal. The symptoms of overdosing on stimulants or depressants can be not breathing, vomiting, convulsions, severe disorientation, high temperature, [...]
New Gene Variant Can Protect People From Alcoholism
Drinking alcohol involves breaking down the ethanol to get the chemical out of our body. If we drink too much alcohol, the body has a hard time breaking it down. This causes too much alcohol [...]
Nutrition and Addiction Recovery
We know that drugs can affect the way we think and cause a lot of damage to our lives mentally as well as physically, bringing a lot of stress. Substance abuse can also ruin our [...]