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D.A.R.E and Weed Effects From the beginning, Mike’s drug and Alcohol use was over the top; it was all or nothing. He shares with us that if he was to start his night out on Ecstasy, he would not stop until all of the drugs around...
Growing Up with Drug Addiction Tiffany grew up in a home with both of her parents living in active drug addiction. Living in an addicted household, she experienced dysfunction in every aspect of her life. The dysfunction she lived with day in and day out resulted in...
From Diet Pills to Meth Abuse Nanci's started abusing diet pills during her career as a nurse. The pills were just the start of her painful and tiresome road down addiction’s chaotic spiral. She started off taking one pill a day; when one pill wasn’t enough, she...
True Stories of Addiction: Matter After a very difficult childhood, feeling unwanted and unloved, Matter became addicted to Meth. His drug use became all encompassing; he was high from the moment he woke until the moment he went to sleep. While being high had become his...
Dual-Diagnosis in Recovery from Addiction Dual-diagnosis is defined as having a substance use disorder like drug addiction or Alcoholism that is accompanied by one or more mental health disorders. In the United States, I am one out of 7.9 million people that live with a dual-diagnosis,...
Amy’s Place: A Women-Only Recovery Home Singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was found dead on July 23, 2011 in her London home. For years, Amy was not able to escape the pain of alcoholism and addiction. She would frequently seek recovery, and was in and out of treatment. On...
Madison, Corey, and Brandon will share about the peace and serenity brought about by their higher power. With the assistance of our higher, we find that our that recovery is defined less and less by our own will. If you or a loved one is in...
The Opiate Epidemic The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has estimated that overdose-related deaths from Heroin have surpassed the number of gun related homicides in 2015. Each day in the United States, an estimated 129 people die from drug overdose, an approximated 78 of those deaths are...
A Sublingual Fentanyl As Fentanyl deaths sky rocket so does the awareness of federal and state authorities. The maker of this drug is Insys Therapeutics Inc. based out of Chandler, Arizona. The prescription synthetic Opioid, Fentanyl beyond addictive and highly powerful, being about 50 times more...
Drug addiction stems from a wide variety of factors. One of the principal factors that drives addiction is a lack of connection. People who feel a lack of connection to others will most likely flock toward drugs and alcohol. As such, the LGBTQ community suffers inordinately...