New Year’s Eve is here – a night synonymous with *trigger warning* champagne, body shots and keg stands (if you’re still in your college years), and fancy trays of white powder. And if you’re someone who likes to party like it’s 1999 on the regular, then you may very well be used to experiencing frequent …
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Thinking of turning to kratom for opioid withdrawal? Think again. Kratom may be just as addictive as heroin and other prescription opioids….. What is Kratom? For those of you who haven’t heard of the stuff, kratom comes from a plant indigenous to Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand called Mitragyna speciosa. The plant was used medicinally for …
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In honor of Halloween, this post is dedicated to one of the most frightening four-letter words out there: FEAR. But we’re not really here to talk about ghosts, goblins, and Freddy Kruger. Though monsters and Halloween horror films can spark reactions in us that, on the surface, look quite similar to some of the deeper …
“Addiction recovery is easy,” said no one ever. Getting clean off drugs or alcohol is definitely not a cakewalk, but most folks who have put together some clean time have discovered that life is actually way more fun sober. If you’re newly sober, however, or even if you’ve been clean for a while but having …
Most addicts have experienced some form of childhood trauma. In fact, most children, both addicts and non-addicts alike, have been exposed to at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. As addicts, however, we tend to have experienced more sustained incidents of trauma in our lifetime, more severe trauma, or we simply process trauma differently …
Many addicts in recovery are well aware of the danger of prescription medication, particularly narcotics, depressants, and stimulants. This is often due to life experience. We don’t usually plan or expect to become dependent on that codeine prescription we were given that time we sprained our ankle. Before we know it, however, we’re popping those …
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Our news feeds lately have been filled with suicide stories, most recently and notably those of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain. While this news has received global attention (as suicide and celebrity stories do), it’s also important to note that there are many more non-famous suicide-related deaths happening simultaneously and by the …
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