Is Drug Addition Hereditary? Understanding Your Risk Factors

Mar 3, 2021

Is Drug Addition Hereditary? Understanding Your Risk Factors Blue eyes, curly hair, and how you perceive the taste of cilantro: These are all physical traits that can be linked to genetics. Can addiction be linked specifically to a person’s genome in the same way? The...

What is the Best Way to Love an Addict?

Feb 15, 2021

What is the Best Way to Love an Addict? Loving someone in active addiction to alcohol or drugs can be extremely difficult. The pain that the suffering addict inflicts on themselves and others can be indescribable. Hurt feelings and worse abound. The suffering addict,...

Is Microdosing Dangerous?

Jan 28, 2021

Is Microdosing Dangerous? Microdosing is the practice of taking small doses of drugs normally used for recreational purposes. The amount taken is considered to be a fraction of what is typically consumed, but proponents believe the effects produced are highly...

Understand and Avoid the Temptation to Use Drugs During the Holidays

Dec 29, 2020

Understand and Avoid the Temptation to Use Drugs During the Holidays While media portrays the holiday season as a time for family togetherness and joyous revelry, not everyone feels like celebrating. If you struggle with drug addiction, the temptation to use may feel...

What Drugs are the Most Addictive

Dec 14, 2020

What Drugs are the Most Addictive For people without a drug use disorder, the commitment to a substance so destructive to an individual’s health and well-being seems at best odd and worst irresponsible. However, people who look at addiction so plainly do not...

Cold Turkey – Great Leftovers, Not a Great Action for Addicts

Nov 23, 2020

Cold Turkey – Great Leftovers, Not a Great Action for Addicts Thanksgiving is November 26. Although it might not be the same celebration nationwide due to COVID-19, it will still be a festive time as families consume turkey, mashed potatoes and all the trimmings. In...