by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Aug 21, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism
When we discuss substance use, we tend to visualize younger people. While it may be true that certain drugs tend to appeal to a younger user, addiction can happen to a person at any age. As of 2014, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Jul 22, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism
Although substance use and abuse can occur in adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, or old age, it can look different at these various life stages. Young adults, for example, don’t have the same patterns of use as their grandparents’ generation. Being aware of the...
by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | May 25, 2020 | Addiction, 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,...
by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Mar 20, 2020 | Alcoholism, Recovery
According to the office of the Surgeon General, nearly 10.8 million young people, ages 12-20, engage in underage drinking, with up to 45 percent of 12th graders reporting that they have drank alcohol in the past month. In fact, more young people drink than smoke...
by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Jan 28, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism
There are times when a problem can be solved by enacting one simple step. Unfortunately, addiction is not a simple problem. Addressing it requires a variety of different processes, enacted together, to most effectively reduce the odds of relapse. Group therapy is one...
by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Oct 30, 2019 | Alcoholism
The Many Negative Effects of Alcohol Alcohol is a substance that can have a permanent, detrimental impact on the people who become addicted to it. Not only can it damage relationships, reputations, and careers, but it can also create permanent havoc in the bodies of...
