Realizing that you are ready to get help to overcome drug addiction is often the first step to recovery. Many people have a hard time determining that they actually have a problem and wait to get help until they hit rock bottom. In-patient treatment is often the best...
Addiction is a very individual disease and different people have different methods of coping. Some people choose to relieve stress and emotion through art, others prefer therapy, and some take advantage of a very powerful tool known as journaling. Journaling differs...
Drug cartels are notorious for bringing mass amounts of illicit drugs across the border. Some of the most dangerous cartels are centered in Mexico and the drug-related violence in the country is at record levels, even now in 2018. Organized crime members are...
In a study done by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), there are over 21 million adults (over the age of 12) in America who have a substance abuse disorder. This survey was done in 2014, and the numbers continue to grow. With that magnitude of those...
Addiction and the recovery process as a whole have dramatically changed over the past decade or so. Based on the available research, it is now well understood (and accepted) that a successful recovery process is reliant on healing the “whole self” — not just your...