Yes, You Can: Four Ways to Strengthen Your Resilience Everyone knows someone who’s been through a horrifying experience, yet somehow manages to keep smiling. People like that usually come to mind when we lose it over small things, like having trouble finding a parking spot or unloading the groceries only to realize we forgot […]
Protect Your Heart: Three Things You Should Know about Women’s Cardiovascular Health February is heart health awareness month, so I’m going to take a short break from writing about addiction and mental health to talk about women and our hearts. Heart disease is the number one cause of death among women worldwide, and in […]
Stop, It Hurts! Three Reasons to Avoid Prescription Pain Medications When your body hurts, you want the pain to stop as soon as possible. Opioid-based pain killer medications are now a commonly prescribed antidote to meet patients’ chronic pain needs, and as the number of prescriptions have increased there has been a parallel rise […]
Therapy and Horseplay: Four Things You Need to Know about Equine Therapy When it comes to equine therapy, I’ll be the first one to advocate for its use. I’ve been an avid rider all my life, and there were many times I walked away from the barn feeling more relaxed and rejuvenated, and emotionally healthier […]
Drink to Your Misfortune: 4 Reasons to Avoid Kratom Anything legal can’t be that harmful, right? So goes the thinking of many who have begun casual use of a substance relatively new to the United States, kratom. Used for centuries in Thailand as a medicinal herb, over the last few years there has been […]
3 Reasons Addiction Treatment Researchers Should Look Closer at LSD What does it take to end an addiction? The loss of a job, a home, even relationships with close friends or loved ones is often not enough to break the cycle of drug-seeking behavior and abuse. A new study from Imperial College London presented […]
Binge drinking is a growing problem, especially in young adults. Although an occasional session of heavy drinking is not necessarily an issue for concern, a pattern of binge drinking could mean that you are a problem drinker. People often do not recognize binge drinking as a problem because it is not a daily habit, more […]
Four Things You Should Know about the Changing Face of Heroin Use Heroin use is not going away. In fact, it’s becoming more prevalent in the United States.The CDC released a comprehensive study of shifting demographics among heroin users over the last thirteen years, including some trends that might challenge your pre-conceived notions of […]
How to Talk to Someone Recovering from Addiction It can be hard to know what to say when someone we care for is in crisis. It can feel safer to simply do nothing in order to avoid the messy feelings and uncomfortable communication many associate with difficult events in their lives. But what your […]
Learning from Scott Weiland’s Death: How to Support Someone Recovering from Addiction and Protect Yourself Scott Weiland’s recent death hit me hard. I had met him a few times, always when he was sober, and in those moments he seemed a warm and delightful person to be around. I’m not surprised by his death. I […]