Drug Addiction

Nearly one in five adults in the United States is living with a mental health condition. This accounts for more than 50 million people, 15 million of whom have a serious mental illness. Some of [...]

Cocaine use has been a significant problem in the United States over the past few decades and continues to grow worse. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that over five million [...]

The teenage years can be very difficult to navigate for young people. With immense brain and body changes, increasing social and scholastic pressures, and increased responsibilities at home, many [...]

Opioid addiction is a major health crisis that plagues America. The Centers for Disease Control states that just over 75.000 Americans died of opioid overdoses in a year-long period ending in [...]

The teenage years are a time of great physical, mental, and social change. Teens will experience enormous changes in their bodies and brains, and they will face increasing family expectations, [...]

For starters, what does IOP even stand for anyway? IOP stands for intensive outpatient program and in the most basic of terms can be looked at as sort of a bridge between inpatient and standard [...]

What if there was something in between inpatient and outpatient care? Where you could get the more intensive care you need but still have the ability to carry on with aspects of your daily life. [...]

When addiction hits your home, it hits different. Of course, substance use disorders are always a scary thing to contemplate no matter who they’re affecting but let’s face it when it’s your wife, [...]

Mental health is a serious issue that requires focused treatment and individualized care. Recently, mental health disorders have garnished more public attention, and talking about mental health [...]

There are various methods people use as a means of introducing drugs into their bodies. Depending on what form the substance comes in, one can ingest drugs by swallowing, smoking, snorting, or [...]