by Anthony Myers | Sep 13, 2017 | Drug Addiction
It seems like every day, we hear or read something about the opiate/opioid epidemic in the United States. After hearing the statistics, it’s really not surprising. According to estimates, in 2015, around two million Americans were addicted to prescription pain...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 12, 2017 | Drug Addiction
In early September 2017, rapper Lil Wayne was hospitalized after he suffered two seizures and fell unconscious in a hotel room in Chicago. He was released a few days later. This hasn’t been the first time Lil Wayne experienced seizures and has been hospitalized. He...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 6, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Recovery
All week, we’ve been talking about the work needed to maintain sobriety and to help fix or prevent relapses. For many people in sobriety, relapse is a dirty word. Maybe that’s why many people don’t seem to want to discuss it. But as with other problems, discussing...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 5, 2017 | Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Recovery
In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed work, recovery, and Labor Day. So, it only seems fitting that we should talk about the opposite of work for today’s post. We should talk about vacations. Of course, just because people take time from work to go on vacations...
by Anthony Myers | Sep 1, 2017 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Substance Abuse
One of the most common and least known forms of addiction (to the general public; don’t trust an addiction specialist who hasn’t heard of it) is dual diagnosis, also known as co-morbid and co-occurring disorders, where a patient has both an addiction and a...
by Anthony Myers | Aug 30, 2017 | Drug Addiction, Health and Wellness
Dangerous drugs are not just drugs you might buy in the street or at a club, like heroin or MDMA (ecstasy). Today, far more people could face drug problems because of drugs they can find in their medicine cabinets. These drugs are prescription drugs and...
