What is AlAnon and Alateen?
Nearly everyone is aware of the organization, Alcoholics Anonymous. Its treatment methods are used in almost 75% of all rehab centers.
Loving them to Death – When Parents Are Enablers
Today, 18.5 million Americans struggle with drugs and alcohol. For most, substance use starts out innocently enough, trying something.
How to Get Weed Out of My System
If you’re facing a drug test it can be a challenge to pass clean. That’s likely why you’re looking up how to get weed out of your system.
Is it Possible to Overdose on Adderall?
Adderall is a prescription stimulant, and the most commonly prescribed in the United States. In fact, with 3.7 million patients filling out over 25 million prescriptions in…
PTSD and Addiction
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common disorders in the United States. In fact, 6.8% of the population will have PTSD at some point during their lives.
What Does Meth Do to Your Brain?
Methamphetamine is an amphetamine-class drug similar to Adderall and other prescription medications.
Drugs That Cause Skin Picking
Drug addiction can cause a variety of skin problems, including skin picking, also known as dermatillomania. Dermatillomania, or skin picking, is considered a “body-focused obsessive activity”.
How to Cope With Addiction in Marriage
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 25 million people are in a marriage where one spouse is suffering from alcohol or drug addiction. Whether the spouse’s struggle is somewhat new or the spouse’s struggle has been ongoing, the problems that it causes for a relationship can be tough for everyone […]
Deadliest Drugs in the U.S.
According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC), nearly 841,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. In the US, over 70,000 deaths were attributed to overdose in 2019 alone. Opioids, mainly synthetic opioids (in particular fentanyl) are the leading driver of overdose death, with 72.9% of opioids involved opioid deaths involving synthetic […]
What is Experiential Therapy?
Experiential therapy is a therapeutic technique developed in the 1970s that uses different expressive tools and activities to help a patient reenact or re-experience certain emotional situations from their past. Experiential therapy is a category of hands-on, interactive activities that can supplement traditional substance use disorder treatment, and has also been used in treating trauma, […]
