Can Executive Rehab Help Professionals Recover? Addiction strikes professionals with intensity as much as anyone else can be hit with addiction at any point in their lives. When it comes, it can be hard to navigate life with it because of being a licensed professional who risks losing that license. Understanding treatment will help serve…
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What to Understand About the Risks of ‘Skin-Popping’ Drugs Intravenous injection of drugs like steroids, cocaine, and heroin can be done into the skin with intradermal injection, or subcutaneous and intramuscular injections. This ‘skin-popping’ can lead to health problems, overdose, and even loss of limbs. Drug rehab is a place to look at this issue…
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What to Expect During Evaluation for Substance Abuse Substance abuse is a difficult thing for any family to deal with, especially if they have been in denial and not willing to seek help. There are generally four goals that need to take place before a person can be evaluated for fitness in rehab for addiction.…
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Why Do People with Bipolar Tend to Self-Medicate? Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that impacts a great number of people in the United States. Many of those people will medicate themselves because they do not have resources to have someone track it for them. Ultimately, they quit using them or overdose on them…
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Why Medical Professionals Turn to Addiction and Ways to Help Them Recover Medical professionals, including nurses, doctors, anesthesiologists, and more have some of the highest rates of addiction around. Their workforce contributes to the safety and well-being of so many, yet many of them are struggling under the weight of addiction. Emotionally and physically, they…
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Do Men Have a Harder Time Overcoming Denial About Addiction? Men are more likely than women to abuse drugs, especially to numb out from stress. Depression is also prevalent among men and the men are less likely to seek mental health treatment. Not only is depression higher among men, but addiction rises as well when…
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Is there a Neurological Reason for Binge Drinking Behavior? When it comes to drinking or doing drugs, people will remain in denial as long as possible. The neurological basis for binge drinking behavior has been documented because addiction starts in the brain where it rewires everything to think the body needs something it doesn’t. The…
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Is Drinking Alcohol Linked to COPD? Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is difficult because the lungs are such a necessary part of a body’s function. They give air and exchange it to bring oxygen throughout the body. Damage to the lungs can greatly impact a person’s ability to not only feel good but…
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Why Meth and Xanax Don’t Mix Methamphetamine and Xanax can become a lethal cocktail of drugs when taken together. Some people even mix in alcohol while taking these drugs. They speed up the heart rate and increase blood pressure, among other things. Xanax is a depressant which changes how the body responds to the methamphetamine.…
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What Motivates Athletes and Artists to Get Treatment? When people lose their careers to addiction, they may be more likely to see drug and alcohol addiction treatment before they lose their lives. If they are struggling, they are more likely to look for treatment than if they are high-functioning. It is dependent on the individual…
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