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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First Responders with Trauma Need Healing and Hope: Here’s Why First responders don’t often get the press they deserve for all they do to save lives at a moment’s notice. They are the first to arrive at the scene of a crash, accident, respond to emergencies, go into burning buildings, or pull people over at…
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Who Needs an Intervention (and How Can Families Help)? A loved one who suffers from addiction can experience great pain and difficulty in their life. They may also bring that into the family and make others suffer as a result. Interventions are designed to let the person know they need help and the family and…
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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 Can These 3 Things Tell You About Anger Management? Early on in life, kids learn how to manage their emotions. For better or worse, they figure out how to navigate relationships, deal with emotions, learn social skills, and figure out adult life. Anger, depression, and substance use issues can pop up as a result…
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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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Why Unchecked Anxiety Keeps People on Autopilot (and Tips to Shut it Off) Anxiety builds on itself and continues to get worse until people are unable to navigate it without help. Masking anxiety takes a lot of energy so, when people don’t feel they can function, they may grow resentful or feel more stressed. Unchecked…
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