Contributor: Megan Wilson, BS, CADC, Timberline Knolls Residential Center Once you have awareness and acceptance that you have a college student addicted to drugs, you may feel helpless as to understanding how to support them. Support can be approached in different ways according to their own awareness and acceptance of their substance-use problem. Both loved [...]
When the University of Maryland researchers looked at students abstaining from media, students reported in the same terms as associated with drug and alcohol addictions, withdrawal symptoms, intense cravings, significant anxiety and antsy feeling. Students reported thoughts in ‘vivid detail,’ anxiety attacks, and depression [1, 2]. Students reported that they were unwilling and unable to [...]
21.5 million Americans have a substance used disorder, applies to people 12 years of age and older, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine [5]. Of this number 1.9 million people have developed an addiction to prescription pain medications and 23% use opioids and 17.3 million Americans are abusing alcohol [5]. With this many [...]
Self help is defined as the act of helping or improving without relying on the assistance of others [6]. This can mean joining a fellowship of others who struggle with similar issues, who support and rely on each other for recovery. This includes a 12-step program such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine [...]
During the late 1700’s, alcoholism was believed to be a moral failing and was a matter of willpower to overcome. Benjamin Rush, one of the Founding Fathers of America, was one of the first to challenge this and felt that it was the alcohol rather than the person that created an addiction [1]. In a [...]MEDICAL ADVICE DISCLAIMER: The service, and any information contained on the website or provided through the service, is provided for informational purposes only. The information contained on or provided through this service is intended for general consumer understanding and education and not as a substitute for medical or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. All information provided on the website is presented as is without any warranty of any kind, and expressly excludes any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.