by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Dec 29, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Recovery
Pink clouds sound like a fairly majestic and surreal phenomenon, like a thing you might associate with unicorns or angels. But in the recovery community, the term “pink cloud” has a specific and potentially sinister meaning. Pink Cloud Syndrome Pink Cloud Syndrome is...
by Jackie Hammers-Crowell | Oct 10, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism
When people begin using alcohol and other drugs, they are generally thinking about the impact it will have on them in that moment. The distraction, alleviation of pain, or feelings of euphoria are a welcome change from their daily struggles; they aren’t thinking about...
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...
