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    Helpers Need Help: Mental Health and Addiction Among Caregivers 

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    It’s easy to assume that the people who support others in need are immune to mental health and addiction issues. However, helpers such as healthcare [...]

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    Risks and Effects of the Most Addictive Painkillers 

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    About the Addictive Nature of Painkillers  Certain medications stand out for their analgesic potency and efficacy in pain management. While these drugs offer therapeutic benefits, [...]

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    How Does Addiction Form? 4 Stages of Drug Addiction

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    What is addiction? Drug addiction is defined as a chronic condition in which people compulsively seek and consume a substance that creates a particular desired [...]

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    What is The Life Expectancy of Someone With Wet Brain?

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    Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, colloquially known as “wet brain,” is a severe and life-threatening condition often linked to chronic alcoholism. This condition stems from a deficiency in [...]

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    What Does Problem Gambling Look Like?

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    Struggling with an addiction can be a lonely, isolating experience. No one ever seeks to slip into habits of an addiction, but sometimes extenuating circumstances [...]

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    How Trauma Can Be a Trigger for Mental Health or Substance Use Issues

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    When you’re struggling with a mental health condition or a substance use disorder (or both), you’re dealing with a relatively fragile and highly influential psyche.  [...]

  • Why Prioritizing Mental Health in Addiction Recovery Matters

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    Mental health and addiction recovery have long been used in the same conversations due to the nature of both conditions often being connected.  Many people [...]

  • Signs, Symptoms and Risks of Xanax Addiction

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    When you think of drug addiction, you might not immediately jump to prescription medication as a likely suspect. But according to the National Center for [...]

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    Fentanyl – Signs and Symptoms of Usage and Withdrawal

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    Fentanyl, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times [...]

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    Signs and Symptoms of Addiction Withdrawal

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    If you are considering quitting drugs and alcohol use, you may be wondering a number of things, such as — what is withdrawal? Does everyone [...]

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    Is Drug Addiction a Disease or a Choice?

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    Discussions about addiction come with strong feelings. For some, these discussions are political. Sometimes, debates become personal — your personal history, your views on social [...]

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    Why You Need to Start MAT for Alcohol Addiction Today

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    Alcohol addiction, also called alcohol use disorder, occurs when a person consumes alcohol in large quantities frequently, to the point that the body develops a [...]

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    Speaking with Your Children about Drug Dangers

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    All parents and caregivers have important conversations with their children regarding safety – look both ways before you cross the street, wear your seatbelt, tell [...]

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    The Most Common Reasons for Addiction Relapse

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    Substance addiction is one of the most difficult diseases to fight since drugs and alcohol biologically rewire your brain to crave them. With this being [...]

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    What Are Cross Addictions and How Do They Form

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    Cross addictions definition A cross addiction is not a co-occurring disorder, or mixing two substances together. A cross addiction is the development of addictive behaviors [...]

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    The Connection Between Domestic Violence and Addiction

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    Addiction tremendously changes behavior. If you or someone you know is struggling with a substance use disorder, you're sure to have noticed major changes in [...]