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How Long Does Alcohol Rehab Take?

By Jessie | July 26th, 2021

When choosing the right rehabilitation center, you may be wondering how long does alcohol rehab take? Incidentally, each individual's recovery journey is unique. This means that the length of time...

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What Are Substance Abuse Treatment Modalities?

By Jessie | July 26th, 2021

Very simply, a treatment modality is a method used to treat a patient for a particular condition. Informally, you may hear patients and medical professionals alike use the term “approach”...

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How to Reduce Withdrawal Symptoms from Alcohol

By Jessie | July 17th, 2021

If you’ve been a heavy alcohol drinker for weeks, months, or years, you are likely to have both physical and mental problems when you cut back or stop drinking. This...

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What is Narcan?

By Jessie | July 16th, 2021

Narcan is a brand name for naloxone. It’s a medicine that can rapidly reverse the life-threatening effects of an opioid overdose. Narcan is an opioid antagonist. This means it attaches...

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Is Nicotine a Stimulant or Depressant?

By Jessie | June 18th, 2021

Nicotine is the main “psychoactive” ingredient in most tobacco products. Its function is to speed up the communication between the brain and the body and enhance the chemical effect of...

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Mindfulness in Recovery

By Jessie | June 14th, 2021

You may be wondering how mindfulness can help therapeutically. You are not alone — the reaction of many people, when introduced to mindfulness, is "Is that it? How is that...

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Does Detox Tea Work?

By Jessie | June 3rd, 2021

As of late, social media sites and apps are filled with influencers promising individuals that they have a magical cure that can make them skinnier, healthier, smarter or a combination...

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Top 7 States with Highest Opioid Abuse Problem

By Jessie | May 27th, 2021

In the 90s, the pharmacology industry came out with an alternative to barbiturates: prescription opioids. This class of drugs was said to be less addictive than barbiturates and still help...

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Addiction Warning Signs

By Jessie | May 24th, 2021

Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or...

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Is Alcoholism Genetic? Examining a History of Alcoholism

By Jessie | May 21st, 2021

You’ve probably heard it said one’s DNA is so complicated that it could stretch out to the sun and back 61 times; this is true. Genetics are simple and complex...

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