How Tennis Helped Jack Mallett Overcome Addiction
Sometimes having an addiction can be an addiction in itself. We are used to depending on something to feel good that we will replace it with anything to have that feeling back. Omaha local Jack [...]
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, [...]
Why Spring Is a Great Time to Do Step Four
Step four in the twelve steps is “make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.” This is the perfect step to complete in spring since spring is a season of new awakenings and [...]
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 [...]
How Being Assertive Will Make You a Stronger Person
Being assertive means that you know what you want and are not afraid to express your wants to other people. It does not mean that you need to be aggressive in which you use scare [...]
The Addiction of Dating Apps
Today, dating can be very easy not just with dating websites but with dating apps too. With Tinder and Bumble, you can just swipe who you like and who you do not that it becomes [...]
Heroin(e): A Netflix Documentary About the Overdose Capital of the World
Huntington, West Virginia is a blue-collar area that is known as the overdose capital of the world. Because there were a lot of labor workers who would get injured, if they could not get painkillers, [...]
Ordinary People: A Movie That Tackles Bereavement and Survivor’s Guilt
When someone in your family dies, it has the potential to break a family apart. Each person is affected differently and dealing with their grief in their own way. The 1980 film Ordinary People shows [...]