A quick glimpse at the season’s commercials, billboards, or even your Instagram feed could tell you that summer and alcohol apparently go hand-in-hand. Whether it be the appeal of a ...
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Doctor Manipulation: How an Addict Will Manipulate Psychiatrists to Get Drugs
If you’ve known someone who has struggled with addiction, chances are you’re all too familiar with the fact that addicts manipulate. Manipulation accompanies the struggle, no ifs, ands, or buts. …
Is Lyrica (Schedule V Drug) Addictive?
There is a misconception that rehabs are filled with people who abuse “street drugs” like heroin and meth. But in reality, many people who seek help at treatment programs find …
Going to Treatment as a Couple is a Bad Idea
Loving someone who suffers with an active addiction is hard enough—but when you’re suffering along with that person, everything becomes more complicated. You’re painfully familiar with the demon that holds ...
How Many Times Will Insurance Cover Treatment?
Relapse happens. These missteps are just a simple fact for many people in recovery. And for full blown relapses when you’ve either hit rock bottom again or are quickly headed ...
420 Isn’t an Excuse to Relapse
Addicts in recovery, although they may have been clean for months or years, retain some level of awareness of the “addict brain.” This is the part of your head that ...
Dealing with Roommates in Sober Living
A lot of buzz surrounds the “difficulty” of going to rehab. Detoxing sucks, residential gets deep into intense problems… but it’s the wake of these stages that most people in ...
Why Fentanyl Causes So Many Overdoses
You’ve probably heard about fentanyl, the pharmaceutical-grade opiate that has caused a spike in overdose deaths recently. The actual numbers should sound alarm bells: OD fatalities that involve fentanyl increased ...
Getting a Job with a Felony Drug Charge
You would think that once you get clean and finish treatment, it would just be a matter of willpower to get your life going again on the outside. After all, ...
Anhedonia: Lack of Pleasure After Quitting Heroin
When dreading the thought of getting clean, a lot of the concern centers around the painful process of detox. Opiate withdrawal in particular is so miserable that it’s earned the ...