Alcohol Consumption On the Rise in Ohio

Over the last few years, you may have noticed increased reports of substance abuse throughout the country. We are not strangers to the increasingly wide-spread use of alcohol, pills, heroin, and other drugs. We’re also becoming more and more familiar with campaigns trying to get this problem under control. You may have even come across … Read more

Health Insurance and Addiction Treatment in the United States

HOW TO RECEIVE AFFORD TREATMENT Currently, over 300 million people live in America. Approximately 270 million of them are over age twelve. Nearly 10% of these people abuse substances. The results from the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health offer proof: 17.6 million suffer from alcohol disorders, and 25 million abuse illicit … Read more

Brain Injury Therapy: What it means and how it works

For those who suffer a brain injury, the path to recovery can be long and demanding. However, with modern techniques and technologies, brain injury therapy is more developed than ever before. With some references from the Brain Injury Resource Center (BIRC), as well as exclusive information from a Professional Clinical Counselor based out of Ohio, … Read more

Mothers Battling Drug & Alcohol Addiction

Barriers to treatment confront women from the outset, and it’s no surprise that most women with a Substance Use Disorder are never treated for it. Compared to men with Opioid Dependence women are likely to be at a socioeconomic and educational disadvantage, to be underemployed or unemployed, and to have primary child-care responsibilities. Their Opioid … Read more

What is Addiction? – Physical and Mental Health Effects

What is Addiction? What is Addiction? Substance Use Disorders Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors. Addiction is … Read more

Prescribing Addictions: Survey on Legal Opioids is Revealing

A survey conducted recently by the Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation was one of the largest ever done on long-term prescription opioid use. A total of 809 people were interviewed. 622 of them had taken opioid painkillers for two months or more throughout the last two years. The other 187 people were living at the time … Read more

Opioid Deaths Increase … Obama Wages War

What is High Functioning Anxiety?

America is fighting an all-out war against opioid abuse right now, and losing. The Obama administration has been fighting honorably. Much action has been taken, especially in the last two years, to combat the opioid epidemic. Still, the year 2014 set all-time records for opioid-caused deaths in this country. “The increasing number of deaths from … Read more

Tips For Dealing With Entering Rehab

Whatever caused you to pull yourself up and take a good, long look at the reality your life has become is uniquely your story. What it specifically was, whether it was your spouse or loved one walking out, getting fired, injuring or killing someone because of drunk driving, is the motivation that brought you to … Read more

Limits on Narcan? A Recent Death Begs the Question

Two weeks ago in North Carolina, Jonathan Hayes was driving his pickup truck on heroin. He overdosed behind the wheel, lost control, and hit another vehicle. Two-year-old Mason Richardson was inside the other vehicle, and he died on impact. Mason’s pregnant mother was driving, and had her sibling in the passenger seat. Both were injured. … Read more

Treatment Options for Ohioans: Our Response

On November 10th Deborah King wrote an article based out of Wooster, Ohio, regarding the state’s opioid epidemic. You can read the article here. Being a licensed substance abuse counselor, recovery ambassador, and former addict herself, she speaks from both experience and knowledge. King believes the African-American community in Ohio is not receiving the best … Read more

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