Making the decision to enter rehab can be the decision that remakes your life. It’s the best and most pivotal step towards recovery from substance abuse and addiction, and its significance cannot be overstated. Firstly, acknowledging the need for help and committing to rehab demonstrates a willingness to confront the issue and take control of …
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Deciding whether to go to rehab is deciding what kind of life you’d like you want for yourself: The kind you have or the kind you deserve.
Heroin is one of the most addictive substances on the planet due to its pharmacological effects on the brain and body. That is why getting the proper help for a drug detox from heroin is essential for a successful recovery. Heroin is classified as an opiate. The National Institute of Drug Abuse defines and explains …
Medical Detox Is A Powerful Weapon In The War Against Addiction— How Does it work? For many people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, they need medical detox, or medically assisted detox, to start the recovery process. Because addiction is a powerful disease, getting the remnants of drugs or alcohol out of the body …
There are so many reasons why someone might abuse alcohol and/or drugs. If you or someone that you know has a substance abuse disorder, learning more about how it can affect a person’s mental health can be beneficial. Not only can it help you to better understand addiction, but it can help you to see …
The path to addiction winds in many different ways. Some people start abusing drugs when they are teenagers, and some, even earlier than that. There are also people who never abuse a drug until they are in adulthood. Sometimes, this is a result of the loss of a family member, being passed up for a …
Starting in 2011, October was determined to be National Substance Abuse Prevention Month. It is a month where professionals, parents, educators and others bring awareness to and about the health effects from substance abuse. During this month, there are talks about individual addictions and community-wide epidemics. Basically, National Substance Abuse Prevention Month was created to …
When loved ones face addiction, it almost always ends up affecting the whole family. Addiction is a difficult disease for families and friends because of how much it can hurt others, antiquated notions about what causes addiction, the associated tragedies that seem to follow addiction like a shadow, and an oftentimes unwillingness for the addict …
If you live in or visit California, you may want to know about the drugs that are legal in this state. You may want to know if you, a loved one or someone you come across is using drugs. Before we dive into this post, let us just say that we do have our Transformations …
The way heroin impacts a person’s body is going to depend on many factors including stature, sex, weight, existing health status, amount of drugs taken, how drugs were taken, how long someone was abusing drugs, whether they take other substances with the heroin and whether they have any mental health conditions. While some heroin effects …
