Opioid Crisis: Public Service Announcement

Man battling drug abuse “The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. If they don’t start, they won't have a problem.” – President Donald J. Trump. In 2016, more than two million American citizens had an addiction to prescription or illegal opioids and according to the Center [...]
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The Process of Medical Stabilization for Opiate Addiction

Woman thinking about how Substance abuse can cause COVID vulnerability Contributor: Staff of Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center It is so easy to become addicted to opiates and so very difficult to break that addiction. Opiate drugs, this includes heroin, impact an individual on every level, physically, mentally and emotionally. Medical stabilization for opiate addiction and detox from opioid drugs is not quick nor easy. [...]
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Attracting Emotionally Unavailable & Abusive Partners

Couple walking on the beach after being married Every person who ever lived struggled with repeating behaviors they regretted, weren’t effective or they didn’t like! It is actually unavoidable to a degree; because of the way our brains work. If you have re-entered relationships, begun others that turned out the same, or simply dropped your coffee on the same spot over and over [...]
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How Opiates Uniquely Affect the Developing Teenage Brain

Teen struggling with addiction to marijuana Misuse of prescription drugs is now ranked only second in prevalence to that of marijuana in the United States. The young adolescents are identified as the age group with the highest rates of prescribed opiates abuse with 5.9 percent reporting nonmedical use. What makes matters even more concerning is that young adolescence is essentially characterized [...]
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Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome – When Weed Causes Nausea

Cannabis plant Cannabis is the most abused illicit drug in the United States. As per the National Institute of Health, each year 2.6 million Americans become new users of marijuana. As the rates of cannabis use continue to skyrocket, a recently emerging clinical condition has been recognized associated with its use. This is the Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome. [...]
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