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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) PTSD is a difficult state of mind when you have been in a traumatic event, and you relive the moments repeatedly. You may have feelings of wishing you had done something different so you would have won the situation. You also … Read more
What is a Dual Diagnosis? When someone checks into a treatment center, whether voluntary or not, a diagnosis must be made of both the substance the person is addicted to and the person’s mental state. Unfortunately, the mental state may have been evident in the … Read more
When You Use Alcohol or Drugs to Relieve Emotional Pain Life is full of wonderful times, mixed with moments where you wish you had not gotten out of bed that day. How you handle the low points in your life determines how quickly you bounce … Read more
Recent studies in the area of addiction have shined some light on an interesting new treatment for the drug-addled individual: brain implants. Brain implants have been proven to be useful in multiple studies that aimed to test their ability to reduce cravings and other addictive … Read more
For most employers, the ideal workplace would be staffed entirely with energetic, capable, and stone-cold sober employees. Unfortunately, one must never rule out the possibility that drug abuse will make its way into the workplace. Your employees or coworkers may already use drugs without your … Read more
Drug addiction is essentially craving for drugs intensely, so much that a person loses control over its use, and continues to use it, despite the adverse consequences. Drug addiction can have an adverse effect on the brain because it destabilizes the way pleasure is registered, … Read more
