Tag Archives: Addiction

How Changes in Healthcare May Impact Addiction Community

Group therapy session with therapist and client in foreground Congress is working to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was formulated under President Obama. Those individuals who struggle with mental health and addiction are most likely the ones who will be affected with the appeal. Nearly 30% of those who are covered by the Medicaid expansion, have a mental disorder such as anxiety [...]
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How Fentanyl Addiction Has Lead to an Opioid Overdose Crisis

Man struggling with pain medication and heroin abuse Fentanyl is an opioid drug. It is a chemically synthesized relative of opiates, like morphine and heroin, which are all derived from the opium poppy. The drug mimics our brain's own pain-regulating molecules, or endogenous opioids, which act at receptors found in the nervous system. Opioids are a pain relieving drug but have various side [...]
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How Setting Goals Can Help Overcome Sexual Addiction

Couple walking in the fog It is incredibly human to get swept up with a current problem or preoccupation. We have all experienced this and found our world shrinking around us. For example, a recent client of mine (details changed to protect identity) was struggling with whether to return home for the holidays because her parents are always so invalidating [...]
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Can Marijuana Successfully Treat Opioid Addiction?

Woman in hat Dr. Gary Whitman works in a Massachusetts Canna Care clinic, which belongs to a host of facilities that work toward the qualification of patients into medical marijuana programs in Rhodes Island, Connecticut, Maine Delaware and the District of Columbia. He has utilized marijuana in a month long tapering program to treat almost 80 patients battling [...]
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The Shame Game and It’s Role in Your Addiction Recovery

Man praying by the lake Growing up in a Christian home, I had a ton of advantages. I had an awesome faith community, youth pastors, pastors who genuinely knew me and loved me, parents that taught me “right” from “wrong,” and constant bible teaching in my life that provided wisdom, perspective and a knowledge of good and evil. One of [...]
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