Pros and Cons of Going to a Coed Drug Rehab
Treatment for drug addiction comes in many different forms but one of the most basic choices to make after you’ve decided to seek help is whether you opt for a gender-specific or coed drug rehab – mix-gendered in other words. Because addiction is such an intimately personal experience, there’s no catchall answer or silver bullet. […]
What Happens in Rehab?
Among the most common recommendations for beating addiction is rehab, so well known in fact that it’s become sort of a catchall term nowadays. Naturally, it’s great that so many folks are aware of the inherent benefits that rehab can provide. But while treatment is oft-advised, not everyone knows what happens in a rehab program. […]
What to Expect After EMDR in Addiction Treatment
Trauma is often intimately connected and intertwined with addiction. For a sizable subset of those suffering from a substance use disorder (SUD), the genesis of their current problems – and why they’ve turned to drugs or alcohol to cope with it – can be tied to trauma in their past. A long-buried event tearing their […]
How to Help Someone With Addiction
It feels like being lost in the wilderness. The life of a loved one being thrown into turmoil – a son, daughter, aunt, uncle, mother, father, best friend – also throws your life into disarray. That stability you took for granted all of a sudden shattered by the realization that addiction is in some ways […]
A Guide to the Different Categories of Drugs
From potency to their effects, all drugs are not created equally. Here we’ll help you understand some of the various categories of drugs that are most commonly used and abused. All of which have a high potential for cultivating a serious addiction. Stimulants These drugs, generally known as “uppers” speed up the body’s system as […]
What Is Sobriety?
While in a certain sense it’s abstract, sobriety is easy to define in the straightforward sense. It’s a person who isn’t under the influence of drugs or alcohol and who doesn’t take drugs or drink. Sobriety is the state of being sober in other words. That’s where some abstraction comes into play because oftentimes you […]
How to Get off Fentanyl Safely
Understanding the dangers of fentanyl – and the reason that getting off it safely requires a measured approach – requires understanding the opioid epidemic. First and foremost, opioids are a class of drugs meant to alleviate pain, with brands like Vicodin and OxyContin commonplace these days. The sense of euphoria that accompanies the pain relief […]
Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms: From Mild To Severe
Alcohol is a toxin and the process of ridding your body of it isn’t necessarily a pleasant one. Your body has gotten used to alcohol being in the system, you’ve grown dependent on it to function. Stopping your intake, therefore, comes with consequences aka withdrawal. Depending on how severe your alcohol use disorder is – […]
The Warning Signs of an Opioid Addiction
Declared a public health emergency in 2017 by the Department of Health and Human Services, opioids have washed over the country like a tidal wave, leaving death, despair and devastation in their wake. Largely due to reassurances from the pharmaceutical industry that this class of drugs didn’t pose a big risk for addiction, doctors began […]
Signs and Symptoms of Benzodiazepine Abuse
Sometimes it feels like anxiety is as thoroughly part of our modern world as the air we breathe. That our natural state is to be on edge and stressed and that trouble sleeping just “goes with the territory” of getting by and getting through the daily grind. It doesn’t have to be that way though […]
