Posts Tagged ‘addiction’
Opioid Addiction in California
The United States has been experiencing an opioid epidemic for years now. This epidemic has led to hundreds of deaths by overdose, numerous hospitalizations due to overdose, and millions of individuals suffering from addiction across the nation. While some of these people seek treatment, recover, and amend their lives, many unfortunately don’t. Several reasons may…
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Cultural Influence on Addiction
While there is not necessarily one specific thing that causes someone to suffer from addiction, many factors can make addiction more common for different individuals or groups of people. Some of these most common factors include biological, environmental, and psychological factors. There is, however, another factor that can have a substantial effect on addiction; cultural…
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Addiction and the Holidays
For most people, there are several reasons why the holidays may be a difficult time of year. Tense relationships with family members, unhappy home situations, or a lack of a home situation or family all together can make the holidays the complete opposite of a holly, jolly environment. It seems like before we’ve even entered…
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Addiction, Depression, and Conquering Both
As many of you may already know, many co-occurring disorders can accompany addiction and substance use disorders (SUD). In some cases, struggles with addiction and SUD can lead to mental illnesses, and in others, mental illnesses can sometimes lead to addiction and SUD. Some mental disorders people experience include anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and several…
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Happy National Recovery Month!
National Recovery Month has been in existence since 1989. For 31 years, we’ve been celebrating not just the importance of recovery, but the importance of connection and community as well. Maintaining recovery can often take a village: a village of support and compassion from a community of family, friends, and peers who have gone through…
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A Holistic Lifestyle Guide to a Holistic Recovery
A holistic approach to recovery means looking at the well-being of several dimensions of health. These dimensions can include physical, emotional, and social well-being; in some cases, this can also include a person’s spiritual well-being. Similarly to why individualized treatment has become so important in today’s modern methods of treatment, holistic approaches to recovery have…
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How Addiction May Be Affecting Your Family
People often discuss the effects of addiction on an individual’s physical and mental health, well-being, and overall quality of life. We sometimes forget though how addiction affects the lives of friends, family, and loved ones. It’s a strange relationship because while loved ones may not understand addiction if they haven’t gone through it themselves, they…
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Addiction, Pain, and What Happens in Your Brain
It can be beneficial to understand the science of what’s happening to us at any given point in our lives. In terms of addiction, substance use disorder, or other co-occurring mental illnesses, understanding what is going on in your brain can benefit you and the people around you. Especially regarding the stereotypes and stigmatization surrounding…
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Destigmatizing the Stigma of Addiction
For years, the topic of mental illness has been stigmatized and considered taboo. Even today, certain stereotypes and inaccurate representations of mental illness exist. However, in recent years, there have been significant efforts to normalize mental illness and co-occurring addiction. As the public health crisis of addiction and overdoses continues to rise, destigmatizing mental illness…
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Why Healthy Family Involvement is Key to Recovery
When discussing addiction, it is often thought of as a personal experience that only the person struggling is impacted by. However, those closest to them, namely the family, will also be directly affected by the person’s addiction. In fact, addiction can affect families in a variety of ways, causing the various members to take on…
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