Trauma’s Role in Substance Abuse Substance abuse causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year in the US, and negatively affects millions more lives. Individuals seeking treatment face a difficult road ahead and a fight that will be at the center of their lives for the foreseeable future. To create more efficient substance abuse treatment [...]
Getting Back On Track With New Years Resolutions Every year, millions of people all across the western world commit to new years' resolutions - changes that they hope will improve their lives and lead to a better future. For many, though, making good on these commitments is a challenge. It's often hard to give up [...]
5 Tips To Cope With Your Anxiety The holiday season is supposed to be a time that’s full of joy and love. However, for those suffering from anxiety, it can also bring with it a bounty of triggers and worries that can derail the good feelings and cause people to turn back into themselves. If [...]
The Psychology Behind Being Thankful Being thankful can have some powerful benefits that will forever change your life, but it requires you to have a positive mindset that can easily overcome adversity. This is a tall order, especially if you find it difficult to cultivate gratitude for things in your life. However, mastering the art [...]
Should a substance user (and those who care about them) pray for rock bottom? It's still a common strain of thinking, especially in the United States, that illicit drug & alcohol users have to hit [...]
Should Drug Users Be Enabled? Should we enable drug users? Yes! In fact, we should enable them in every facet of life possible. For generations, the common prescription among American families who encounter illicit substance use has been a heaping dose of 'tough love'. Whether it's legally or socially, we're told that condoning substance use, [...]
Recent years have seen a significant improvement in the way we handle and understand mental illness. That’s hardly surprising seeing that, in modern America, around 46.4% of adults experience mental struggles, in large part depression and anxiety, at some stage in their lives. As with any health-related concern, mental health is a broad and varied [...]