The failure to set boundaries in recovery is one of the biggest threats to those with a history of substance use disorder. Loose boundaries can allow others to negatively influence your behavior or take advantage of your situation. Setting boundaries early on in your recovery will help you stay on track and let your loved...
Category: Drug Addiction
What is K2 and How is It Impacting Lancaster County?
While K2 has been on the market for several years, it recently attracted major media attention when over 100 people overdosed on the synthetic marijuana product in New Haven, CT, earlier this month. Sadly, this wasn’t the first instance of mass overdoses on K2, but it did serve to intensify the discussion surrounding the deadly...
Addiction and Choice: What Truly Causes Addiction?
There are so many misconceptions surrounding addiction that it can sometimes be easy to make incorrect assumptions about the people who struggle with it. Falling into this trap is only intensified by people’s inexperience with the causes of addiction and the corresponding inability to understand that no one chooses this kind of life. The reasons...
Lesser-Known Signs of Substance Abuse
Many people who struggle with substance abuse are good at keeping their addiction hidden. Knowing all the signs of substance abuse will help you decide if you need to talk to your loved one about addiction. If your loved one demonstrates these lesser-known signs of substance abuse it’s time to get them help. Physical Signs...
How to Help Your Spouse Avoid a Drug or Alcohol Relapse
You and your spouse have been through a lot—confronting addiction, going through treatment and making a commitment to live a substance-free life. Now you’re embarking on a new phase in your relationship. It’s time to focus on leading a healthy life together and helping to prevent your spouse from relapsing. Read these 11 ways to...
Impact of Addiction on Families: How a Child’s Life is Jeopardized
In even the best of circumstances, today’s children are forced to grow up fast. Children of addicts, however, face challenges few others can even fathom. With an estimated 25% of children in the United States exposed to familial substance abuse, figuring out how addiction impacts kids is a huge step towards protecting them. Health Problems...
How to Talk to Your Teen About the Dangers of Drugs and Alcohol
Alcohol and substance abuse are touchy topics to begin with, but having a conversation with a teenager about them can be downright unnerving. How will they react? Will they argue? Will they take you seriously? Will they shut you out? Despite these concerns, the bottom line is the conversation is too important not to have....
Choosing the Best Treatment Center For Addiction
You or a loved one have taken the first, most important step toward recovering from drug or alcohol dependence—recognizing the need for professional help. The next step is choosing the best treatment center for addiction—one that can help with the dependence issues and map out a road to recovery. This handy checklist should help you...
Impact of Addiction on Families: Addiction and Financial Problems
Addiction and the financial problems it causes can ruin lives. When someone in your home is struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol, it can add stress to the entire household not only emotionally but financially, as well. Behavior Associated with Addiction and Financial Problems Addiction and withdrawal can put your loved one in...
Impact of Addiction on Families: Addiction and Abuse
Substance addiction and verbal, emotional, or physical abuse too often go hand-in-hand. The connection between addiction and abuse is complex, no matter the relationship between you and the person you love, whether you’re a parent emotionally abused by an adult child or a partner physically assaulted by a significant other. You deserve to live a...