Setting boundaries with addicted loved ones is a challenging yet rewarding task. Learning to stop enabling addiction behaviors is essential to providing a healthy and productive support system. However, changing to establish positive and healthy boundaries with a...
As COVID-19 comes full circle into a more manageable virus, the opioid crisis, and heroin-addicted mothers are coming to the forefront. Yet, unfortunately, thousands of Americans continue to die from heroin overdose each year. Although the President proclaimed war on...
Snorting heroin is one method of using the substance. Whether the heroin has been snorted, injected, or smoked, it’s a hazardous drug. Highly addictive, heroin reaches the brain rapidly and touches the areas responsible for pleasure and feelings. Heroin use also...
Benzodiazepine addiction and mental health disorders can be treated together and often result from long-term benzo use. Benzodiazepines, or “benzos” for short, can lead to physical and mental health issues taken long-term. Therefore, close management of...
Synthetic drugs often produce the same effects as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, or amphetamines. However, they are very hazardous to consume because they contain dangerous compounds. If you or someone you care about is considering synthetic drugs, an understanding of...
Fifteen million people in the U.S. experience an alcohol use disorder and are in danger of developing the long-term effects of alcohol use. Alcoholism can lead to chronic disease, damage to body organs, depression, and brain damage. Each year, approximately 88,000...
