How Insurance Companies are Fighting the Addiction Crisis Opioid prescriptions have risen tremendously in the past few years. These prescriptions have helped fuel a nationwide addiction crisis and the number of overdose deaths per year have now surpassed auto accident deaths. Health insurance companies have been...
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more people have died from drug overdoses in 2014 than in any year on record. Seven out of ten of these overdoses involve an opioid, with overdoses now taking more lives per year than car...
In considering the type of addiction rehab facility and program to choose, it’s important to ask yourself some questions – about your alcohol or drug use and also, your expectations for yourself. This will likely be one the most positive life-changing experiences you will go...
What exactly is an opiate, and what makes these such a big issue? What has caused opiates in their varied forms become the number one epidemic in the United States today? And what should we know about this to make sure we don’t become part...
Heroin Among the many drugs that are misused and are considered to be dangerous for your health, heroin tops the list. Essentially a semi synthesized opioid, Heroin is extremely addictive and is banned almost everywhere in the world. A little too much of the drug may...
DUAL DIAGNOSIS-DOUBLE DEMONS IN RECOVERY Dual Diagnosis is a term that is being used at drug rehab recovery centers as part of the treatment plan for recovery clients. Dual Diagnosis Treatment refers to a personality, mood or compulsive disorder other than addiction that is negatively affecting...
It looks like a chunk of concrete. It has a gray colorization, and it can kill with one dose. And an ominous name as well — Gray Death. What is this latest drug to hit the streets? Gray Death is the latest killer drug cocktail...
Many older 12 step veterans have shared a great way they use to stay clean in recovery—journal every day. Now many addicts are not very focused on writing as they may have not been great in school or just never finished high school. And even...
Many people who are not in the recovery and often living on the streets have mental illness that have not been diagnosed. Or the person has been diagnosed and doesn’t want to take medications or can’t afford them. Or the illness is too much and...
This will be a controversial blog, but it is meant to help everyone think who are involved in addiction. For numerous years, people who have been called addicts have faced a stigma. They have been called “addicts” and the title of this has had a...
