Reconnecting with Your Family in Recovery
Addiction is a problem that can affect all aspects of a person’s life including their relationships with loved ones. People who have an issue with substance abuse often struggle to maintain healthy connections to others especially their family. For various reasons there may be a distance that develops between the addict and their family members…
Triggers in Social Media
Social media apps and websites are mostly meant to be a fun diversion or just a way to communicate with friends and family. For people suffering from mental health issues, however, social media can be full of triggers that make it difficult to fully enjoy the potential for connection in these platforms. Social media, for…
Singer Hayley Williams Battles Depression
The singer of one of the most successful modern pop-rock bands, Paramore has recently opened up about her mental health issues that almost caused her to quit the band. In an interview with “Fader” Hayley Williams discussed feelings of hopelessness and her decision in 2015 to take a break from her music career to focus…
How Does New Health Care Bill Affect Rehab in the US?
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump kept promising he would repeal Obamacare and implement a new and improved health care bill. After November election he became the 45th President of the US and you already know what came next – series of scandalous decisions and bans. Not only that, he also made it his mission…
Who is to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic?
A steady rise in opioid abuse has become more than an alarming trend, it is now a national crisis that must recognized. In years between 1999 and 2015 there were more than 183,000 deaths related to prescription opioid overdoses. These types of drugs can be identified as the main reason that deaths among a specific…
Instagram and Mental Health: Does Instagram Trigger Depression?
Although it has been known for some time that heavy use of social media sites like Facebook are linked to depression, a more recent study has found that Instagram is now considered the worst offender. Instagram is a popular photo and video sharing app with more than 700 million users worldwide and a substantial younger…
Tiger Woods & The Painkillers Epidemic
Prescription medications, especially opioid painkillers have become a major problem in the U.S. and the recent incident with Tiger Woods is another example of how widespread the abuse is throughout the country. Almost half of all Americans personally know someone who is addicted to prescription painkillers about 80 people die from opioid overdoses every day….
Did Brad Pitt’s Drinking End His Marriage?
The split between the famous Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie last fall was surprising for many fans as the two had been together for more than a decade. Pitt has opened up about some of the issues that led to their divorce as well as his decision to get sober following the split….
Did Rockstar Chris Cornell Overdose On Ativan?
The death of singer Chris Cornell, former frontman of Soundgarden and Audioslave, shocked friends, family and music fans alike. The singer was 52 years old and had only recently performed at a live show before he was found in his hotel room at the MGM Grand Detroit. The cause of death was eventually ruled to…
Are MLB Players Becoming Drug Addicts To Enhance Their Performance?
Major league baseball players have been hitting home runs out of the park at rates that have never been seen before in history. Although much of this increase is due to changes in hitting philosophy, there are questions and doubts issues of performance enhancement that continue to haunt the world of baseball long after the…
