A recent story on WebMD outlined how the Opiod epidemic continues to spread among kids and teens. The number of young children and teens hospitalized for overdosing on opioid painkillers have spiked nearly threefold in recent years, a new study finds. Counselors should be on the lookout for signs that their students are using Opiods. Read More

RECOVERY TOOLKIT Relapse Prevention Tools & Resources Throughout this guide, you have read about the definition and causes of addiction, as well as the paths you can take once you’re addicted. You may have related to the risk factors and the withdrawal symptoms that addiction can cause. In the last part of this guide, we Read More

Paths To Recovery Choosing What Type of Help is Best For You You’re in the process of fighting your addiction to a drug or alcohol. You’ve gotten past your acute withdrawal from the substance through detoxification, which is generally the first component of treatment, and you might still be experiencing the longer lasting symptoms of Read More

Addicted? Now What? Know That You Are Not Alone You have gone through the stages of addiction discussed in the third part of this guide, so now you are in addiction’s hold (or someone you know is at this point). This is probably not what you expected for your life, but you find yourself here Read More

Stages of Addiction Understanding When Things Become Dangerous After reading the second part of the guide, “Risk Factors of Addiction,” you should have a clearer idea of which people are more susceptible to addiction than others. But why does addiction happen to begin with? How do you go from trying a substance or using it Read More

Who’s Really At Risk Might Surprise You! Written by Dr. Dina Macaluso, Psy.D, L.M.H.C., Alan Boyd, & Sharon Therien Risk Factors of Addiction Why is it that you could become addicted to a drug more easily than another person? In reality, it doesn’t work that way because there is more to addiction than a substance Read More

Everyone has a basic idea of what addiction is, yet it’s a complex and involved topic that goes far beyond common knowledge. Nonetheless, it’s worth delving deeper to learn more about addiction if you or someone you know is affected by it – or if you’re trying to determine whether the person does in fact Read More