by Keenen Diamond | Apr 26, 2020 | Substance Abuse, Addiction Treatment, Opiate Addiction Treatment Center, Opioid Addiction
It’s hard to remember a time where there wasn’t a problem with opioids. While issues with drug use have persisted throughout the years, things began escalating in the early 1990s. That’s the part of the opiate overdose timeline where there was a rise in deaths related...
by Keenen Diamond | Apr 18, 2020 | Mental Health, Drug Abuse, Substance Abuse
The idea of people using drugs to self-medicate symptoms of mental illness is not new. They may turn to drugs for euphoric feelings that offset feelings of depression or use alcohol to make themselves feel less anxious in social situations. However, drugs do more than...
by Keenen Diamond | Sep 16, 2019 | Drug Abuse, Q&A
An adjustment disorder is not what it sounds like. In fact, it is mostly about how a person copes with what is going on around them. They may have a diagnosable condition which causes what seems like abnormal behavior. This may be paired as a co-occurring (dual...
by Keenen Diamond | Sep 13, 2019 | Drug Abuse, Q&A
An addiction disorder is defined as a condition where a person feels compelled to do something like use drugs or drink alcohol and cannot stop. They experience a negative impact on their lives, including career or school, relationships, and health. They do not...
by Keenen Diamond | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog, Recovery
Recovery is a long arc, a story that starts with rehab and ends when a person’s life is over. That leaves a whole lot of room in between for many nuances. There are programs and different styles of healing from addiction, but detox and rehab have high success rates...
