Group Therapy Activities for Addiction Treatment
Group therapy is a great way not to feel alone as you are with others going through the same struggles too. Group therapy can be fun depending on the activity. The activities you can do [...]
What Are the Effects of Cocaine on the Brain?
Cocaine is a Schedule II drug that has the highest potential for abuse. Not only can cocaine give you blurred vision, convulsions, muscle spasms, and respiratory problems but can do significant damage to the brain. [...]
Celebrities Influencing Teen Drug Use
With reality shows, movies, and television shows that show teens using drugs or alcohol having the time of their lives, producers do not think of the audience watching it. When teens see a celebrity advocating [...]
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 [...]