Managing Depression When You’re In Recovery
Experiencing depression in recovery, especially during the early stages, is very common. For many who are new to recovery, the symptoms of depression they experience are part of a grieving process for not being able to drink anymore. For someone with co-occurring depression or other disorders, these symptoms may be especially intense. Often, all the […]
How Friends and Accountability Helps Your Recovery
Addiction thrives on isolation and deception. Denial gets in the way of making you see that you have a problem, or think that things “aren’t so bad” or your addicted life is easy to manage. A lifestyle of active addiction is characterized by working to make sure that other people don’t know how much your […]
Dealing With Conflict In Recovery: How To Handle Obstacles In A Healthy Way
Conflict is an unavoidable part of our lives. It naturally arises as a result of people’s opposing needs, desires, miscommunications, and just plain self-centeredness. It can seem like the best way to handle conflict is by avoiding it altogether, but in the end, this kind of approach can cause more damage than it does good. […]
Prescription Drugs Contribute to Heroin Use in Baby-Boomers
Recent statistics on the age range of heroin addicts and number of deaths due to heroin overdose in America have yielded surprising results. Older Americans, or those between the ages of 50 to 64, make up growing number of addicts. The number has nearly quintupled in the last decade and continues to steadily rise. Alcohol […]
Are America’s Elderly the Next Wave of Addiction?
Many people working to combat drug addiction tend to focus their efforts on teenagers and young adults, because that is a central time when many people experiment with substance abuse and develop addiction. However, recent stories and statistics are showing a startling number of retirees and people over 50 are also struggling with addiction, becoming […]
Does Your Brain Fight Against Relapses In Recovery?
Last week, a group of scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California announced that they received two generous grants totaled at $3.8 million that would go toward research investigating the natural brain mechanisms that help prevent drug and alcohol relapse. The study is scheduled to take place over a 5 year period […]
Treating Opioid Addiction Requires An Understanding Of Dopamine
One of the reasons that addiction treatment involving substitution therapy is so effective is because of the big role dopamine plays in the functioning of our brain. This chemical is directly responsible for feelings of happiness and well being that we experience in our lives, whether it be from eating good food, spending time with […]