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How the Feeling of Powerlessness Impacts Addiction
When we feel powerless, we often turn to addiction as a way to cope. Addiction provides a false sense of control and power, which can be incredibly seductive when we feel like our lives are spiraling out of control. However, this false sense of power quickly turns...
How the Feeling of Powerlessness Impacts Addiction
When we feel powerless, we often turn to addiction as a way to cope. Addiction provides a false sense of control and power, which can be incredibly seductive when we feel like our lives are spiraling out of control. However, this false sense of power quickly turns...
Denial and Blame Shifting After a Relapse
It's never easy when someone relapses from addiction recovery. Not just for the addict who veered off their path, but for the loved ones of the addict, too. When a relapse happens, it’s important to remember that a relapse is just a bump in the road, not a complete...
What Are The 6 Categories of Self-Care?
We hear a lot about self-care these days. It’s everywhere from self-help magazines, to the news, and even in healthcare. Have you ever heard the saying “You can't pour from an empty bucket”? That’s exactly what self care is. It’s filling your bucket, so you can give...
Can You Become Tolerant to Benzodiazepines?
Drug addiction is a challenging condition to live with, and it can even happen to those that have never touched an illegal drug in their life. Addictions often begin when someone is prescribed a drug to treat something and then misuses that prescription. It happens...
How to Support Someone’s Recovery Without Enabling
Drug addiction or substance use disorder, as well as alcohol use disorder, are incredibly common in the US. If you or someone you love has had trouble with substance or alcohol use and is now seeking to begin recovery with the help of addiction treatment, you may be...
The Differences Between Alcoholism and Problem Drinking
Alcohol is such a big part of our society, that we don’t often think about all of the people that have an issue with problem drinking, who may or may not be alcoholics. When someone says that someone is a “problem drinker”, people will often visualize a disheveled...
Alcohol and Swelling: Does Drinking Cause Inflammation?
Alcohol and Swelling: Does Drinking Cause Inflammation? Inflammation can be caused by excessive alcohol consumption. Heavy consumption adds to inflammation that affects your entire system by interfering with your body’s natural defenses against the rush of gut...
Alcohol and DayQuil: Can You Mix the Two?
You probably never thought twice about having an alcoholic beverage while using an over-the-counter daytime cold and flu medication. Why would you? There’s no alcohol in the medicine, right? While that is true, it’s the other ingredients in DayQuil that you need to...
Morphine Vs Fentanyl: Which Opioids Are Most Dangerous?
Both Fentanyl and morphine are painkillers, however, they each have different effects on the body. There are several differences and effects when it comes to morphine vs fentanyl. Both morphine and fentanyl are among the most common and potent forms of opioids in...
What Happens If You Snort Adderall?
What is Adderall? Adderall is considered a prescription stimulant drug utilized to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known as ADHD. It might be used or abused regularly as a “study drug” to increase wakefulness, as a “crash diet drug” because...
What Is Substance-Induced Anxiety Disorder?
Substance-induced anxiety disorder is: Restlessness Nervousness Panic caused by taking a drug or stopping a drug However, if you had anxiety before you started using the drug, it does not constitute a substance-induced anxiety disorder, even if it makes your anxiety...
How Does AA Work? (Virtual And In-person)
Alcohol and drug addiction don’t discriminate. It impacts the lives of individuals around the world and from all walks of life. In fact, according to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
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