Time to Grow Up; Adolescents Aren’t ALWAYS to Blame for Drug Use

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Have you ever noticed that we live in a society that is somewhat upside down where more demand is placed upon young people to act more adult-like? In the meantime, adults have become increasingly more like adolescents! […]

Protecting Those With Alzheimer’s

While alcohol addiction affects families in the thousands across the United States, there is a growing, if not larger, number of people who are affected when their loved ones are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. An article that was published earlier this year in Telegraph.co.uk talked about how German nursing homes were using a strategy […]

5 Things to Avoid if You’re Depressed

Sometimes life after drug and alcohol addiction recovery can be extremely difficult. Some people find if extremely difficult to fight the urges they once had with drugs and/or alcohol. Therefore, in an effort to not be tempted into doing drugs again, they remove themselves from situations where there may be drugs and/or alcohol. […]

Drug Use & Unemployment

Whenever you apply for a job, there is usually a place on the application that asks you whether or not you’ve ever tested positive for drug use. Now, if you answer “yes,” it doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t get the job. Usually, you’ll have a chance to explain yourself. However, […]

Relapse Prevention: 10 Relapse Triggers

The staff at Mark Houston Recovery knows all about drug and alcohol relapse prevention as well as what causes it. Recovery is a journey that lasts a lifetime. Just because you go through a drug and alcohol rehab program doesn’t mean that you’ve successfully rid yourself of the bad habits that landed you […]

Overcoming Depression

…and here I am sitting in my car in the middle of the night not knowing where to go, who to talk to- the phone in my hands, but I don’t have anyone that I can call- what would I say if I could tell someone what was wrong with me.? Even I didn’t know […]

Why Do We Feel the Need to Drink Alcohol?

In today’s society, alcohol is all around us. It’s in advertising on television commercials; it’s in the movies; it’s at social functions. But why do we feel the need to consume it? What is it that drives an individual to become addicted to alcohol?
Perhaps it’s the way society has made alcohol so […]

Prescribing a Drug Problem (Part 2)

So, we already discussed how you can become addicted to prescribed medications. Now, let’s take a look at who is abusing these drugs and what the most commonly used drugs are.
Who Is Abusing Prescribed Medications?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a random sample of U.S. households in a 2004 survey […]

Testing..1..2..3..

I think we can all agree that drugs are bad. Drugs ruin relationships, lives and sometimes the chance at being successfully rehabilitated into society (depending on each individual situation). Sometimes it’s hard to face the fact that no one wants to hire someone who has had an extensive history of drug use. It doesn’t look […]

The Challenge of Recovery

Most men who are addicted to drugs have the addiction for quite some time before they are able to realize or accept that they have a problem. Traditional addiction treatment expects the addict to overcome the physical aspects of their addiction and learn new habits to prevent drug use in only 28 days.
Recent studies show […]

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