May 25, 2020 | Substance Use Disorder, Alcoholism
There is a tendency in my mother’s family to blame everything on her father. He was a violent, angry man, whose entire adult life revolved around alcohol. My mother and her siblings blamed him for the family’s poverty, for several of them being raised in foster care,...
May 11, 2020 | Substance Use Disorder, Recovery
There is no chronic disease with a zero percent relapse rate. Whether you’re talking about diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure or addiction, the people who struggle with these afflictions may have an occasional slip or even a huge setback after they’ve found...
Nov 12, 2019 | Substance Use Disorder, Mental Health
It’s no secret to people who’ve grown up in a home where parents have abused alcohol or other substances: everyone in a family affected by addiction can develop unhealthy coping strategies. People who enter relationships with an addicted person have a tendency to be...
Oct 3, 2019 | Substance Use Disorder, Therapy
Are you one of the many people who struggle with pain medication addiction, alcohol addiction, or other substance abuse problems? Perhaps you know your use is impacting your ability to do your job to the best of your ability. You’re not able to stop using, and you...
Aug 28, 2019 | Substance Use Disorder, Mental Health
Rethinking Addiction For many years, it was thought that addiction was caused by drugs and moral failings. Scientific research has led to a rethinking of this philosophy, with study after study showing that addiction is far more complicated than previously explained....
Aug 8, 2019 | Substance Use Disorder
Not Just Harmless Fun Binge drinking is not a new phenomenon, nor is it even new among college students. Many consider this sort of behavior a rite of passage for young people. There are decades of movies portraying drunken college students and supporting the notion...
