Archive: Drug Addiction, FAQ, Mental Health, Recovery, Uncategorized
How Drug Courts Work for Addiction Treatment
April 2nd, 2015Few individuals facing drug-related, non-violent charges are able to access the kind of treatment needed to address an addiction to drugs or alcohol. Instead, these individuals end up convicted and jailed without treatment. Equally troubling, many individuals suffer from co-occurring mental disorders and conditions often exacerbated by incarceration. Judicial professionals in the 1980s saw a […]
Why Drugs Are Addictive? – The 10 Hardest Drugs To Kick
March 30th, 2015The human brain and central nervous system is an intricate and highly evolved system that has directed our species toward the foods and activities that promote and sustain life for hundreds of thousands of years. When primitive humans located a food source that was good for them, their brain captured a snapshot of their surroundings, […]
Domestic Violence And Drug Addiction: A Deadly Combination
March 21st, 2015Physical altercations tear through American families and blended households. Violence—a common cause for legal trouble—is at a high point in both urban and rural areas. The country’s victims of domestic violence are usually women and children. And with more families falling to divorce as a result of drug and alcohol addiction, it is no wonder […]
5 Great Books On Addiction And Recovery
February 17th, 2015“When you stop drinking; you stop waiting.” -Caroline Knapp, Drinking: a Love Story There are many great books about addiction and recovery, but some of the most powerful come from the personal accounts of those who have survived addiction. The following list and summations are of best-selling memoirs, by both men and women, relating to […]
Can My Loved One Come Visit Me In Rehab?
December 16th, 2014For some, entering treatment might mean leaving behind a toxic environment that encouraged their addiction. For others, it can benefit the family to see what life is like when the addicted person is removed from the household. Either way, for family, friends, and the drug- or alcohol-addicted person, that first week in treatment represents a […]
How To Convince A Drug Addict To Get Help
June 2nd, 2014Watching someone’s life be destroyed by drugs or alcohol is devastating, especially when that someone is a person close to the individual who’s concerned. We understand that parents and partners greatest desire is to help an addicted family member or friend get the help they need. We also understand that convincing someone to get help […]
Krokodil: The Flesh-Eating Zombie Drug
May 19th, 2014Ever since the television series The Walking Dead hit our screens, there has been a global fascination with the undead. People often talk hypothetically about what they would do if there was a zombie apocalypse, where the world is overrun with millions of flesh-eating zombies. But although such a scenario seems as though it might […]
Celebrities Who Have Abused Heroin
February 20th, 2014Academy-award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is the latest celebrity to die from a heroin overdose. Found with a needle in his arm and surrounded by 70 bags of heroin, Hoffman’s death was an especially tragic loss since just months earlier, he had checked himself into rehab. Hoffman’s alleged drug dealer is linked to other […]
Opiate Withdrawal – Uncomfortable To Downright Painful
January 30th, 2014The Difficulty Of Opiate Withdrawal These drugs cause extreme physical dependency, both in between highs and when trying to stop taking them all together. Over time, addicts end up developing a tolerance to opiates, causing them to use more and more of the drug to produce the same high. When this tolerance develops, the brain […]
