Imagine not being able to see. Youβre surrounded by a fog that only exists for you. Your arms and legs feel heavy and your body feels weird. It doesnβt exactly ...
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Addiction Symptoms: Do I Have A Problem?
When you see someone in a full-blown addiction, itβs easy to disassociate. On your drive home from work, you pass by a homeless man sleeping on the dirty street corner ...
Is My Child Struggling with Substance Abuse?
Love is blinding β especially when it comes to your child. Children are seen as a parentβs greatest accomplishment, and virtually every parent will have no qualms with boasting about ...
How to Tell if Someone is Physically Dependent on Drugs or Alcohol
Letβs say itβs Friday and youβre looking to wind down from the work week, so you grab a drink at the bar down the street from your apartment on your ...
Judging Addicts vs. Treating Addicts with Compassion
Itβs easy to look at the too-thin, dirt-caked arms peeking through dirty heaps of newspaper and tattered blankets, hear the nonsensical mutterings, and think: βaddict.β The quick thought is likely ...
Narcan Parties: RSVP Yes to Lower Overdose Death Toll
If we could wave a magic wand and reverse the opioid crisis, it would have happened already. Itβs long been at a point where saying, βWeβre working on itβ isnβt ...
Doctor Manipulation: How an Addict Will Manipulate Psychiatrists to Get Drugs
If youβve known someone who has struggled with addiction, chances are youβre 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 βstreet drugsβ like heroin and meth. But in reality, many people who seek help at treatment programs find …
420 Isnβt an Excuse to Relapse
Addicts in recovery, although they may have been clean for months or years, retain some level of awareness of the βaddict brain.β This is the part of your head that ...
Dealing with Roommates in Sober Living
A lot of buzz surrounds the βdifficultyβ of going to rehab. Detoxing sucks, residential gets deep into intense problemsβ¦ but itβs the wake of these stages that most people in ...