As you come to realize you, or someone close to you has a problem with drugs or alcohol, you will need to know how to choose the best drug rehab center. This is a difficult time, but the bright spot in this is that there are many options. How to choose the best drug rehab center involves weighing your specific …
How do you respond when you are living with the idea that people say I have a drinking problem? How even to respond? Denial is often the first reaction. How can people say I have an alcohol problem when everyone I know drinks alcohol? When people say I have a drinking problem, I need to start looking at what is …
Most of us are well aware of the epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States. The facts behind opioid abuse are alarming. The U.S. makes up just 5 percent of the world’s population. Yet, the U.S. accounts of 80 percent of the world’s prescription opioids. This is a major factor behind opioid abuse. What is more, 53 percent of …
As the crisis of opioid addiction has grown, so has the incidence of opioids overdose. More than 130 people die in the United States every day from some type of opioids overdose. The epidemic of opioids addiction which has produced the opioids overdose problem is largely due to legitimately prescribed medications. This in conjunction with a general proliferation of illegal …
For decades the only way we could understand problem drinking was under the general term of alcoholism rather than alcohol use disorder. This conjured images of meetings in smoky basements and people pouring over the 12 steps. This may have worked for some, but it was not grounded in science, and others found it off-putting. In recent years, medical science …
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) defines alcohol abuse as consuming 5 or more alcoholic drinks a week. For some regular drinkers, this number may not appear to constitute alcohol abuse. However, SAMHSA has determined this figure based on research on the dangers of excessive drinking. Drinking alcohol is such an ordinary aspect of life for people, …
Breaking your addiction, completing a treatment program, and embarking on a drug and alcohol-free life is genuinely liberating. This time of renewed life and energy is precisely the time to think about a relapse prevention plan. There is an old saying: If you’re not planning to succeed, you are planning to fail. Maybe this is a bit harsh, but a …
The heroin use and heroin overdose epidemic are part of the overall problem of opioid addiction in the United States. Every day more than 130 people die of an opioid overdose and this includes heroin overdose. As many as 500 thousand people reported using heroin in the U.S. This has led to more than 80 thousand heroin overdose-related trips to …
Heroin is an illegal and highly addictive opioid. The primary reason heroin is so incredibly dangerous is that heroin detox is prolonged, painful, and extremely uncomfortable. Heroin detoxification often called heroin withdrawal, is the medical process by which the body reacts to the absence of heroin. We can make a distinction between withdrawal and heroin detox from a medical standpoint. …
Heroin withdrawal is arguably the most prominent obstacle to breaking the heroin addiction. Notoriously painful and uncomfortable, heroin withdrawal symptoms alone tend to shut down most attempts at getting sober. The complications which lead to heroin withdrawal are two-fold: the longer you have been using heroin, the more tolerance you build up to the effects of the drug. As a …
