Addiction Recovery Blog
It Takes Greatness to Seek Help for Drug and Alcohol Abuse
This post originally appeared on January 15, 2018, a day when the United States celebrated the birthday of the late Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent civil rights leader. Given his impressive accomplishments, most people would agree that King was a great...
NIH Offers Online Navigator for Suspected Alcohol Use Disorder
A Guide To The NIAAA Alcohol Treatment Navigator When alcohol is counted as an abused drug, it leads the pack, but not everyone who drinks alcohol is abusing it or addicted to it. That's one of the things making it difficult for people to decide if they have a...
Coping with Blue Monday without Alcohol and Drugs
This blog post was originally published in January, 2018. That year, January 15, 2018, the third Monday of the month, was known as Blue Monday. Some people call the day Blue Monday because they consider it the most depressing day of the year. When you think about it,...
Many Opioid Addicts Only Took Opioids as Prescribed
Opioid addiction and overdose deaths are up, but what is the core problem? Is it just an opioid epidemic? Or something else? For some people, the answer still seems to be it's a question of morals or willpower. For others, it is like a disease, like diabetes, maybe...
New Year’s Celebrations, Drinking, and Relapse
This blog post was published on January 1, 2018. This is the first day of the year, New Year’s Day, on many calendars in many countries. People celebrate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one in many ways. These ways include attending parties and...
The Gateway Drug Theory of Substance Use Disorder
Stop me if you've heard this one before: Marijuana is a gateway drug, that is, if you use it, you will go on to use other drugs. I first remember hearing that theory on an episode of Dragnet in the 1960s, where Joe Friday claimed that whenever they arrested a young...
Can Pulp Fiction Lead to Facts about Drugs?
Yes, this is another blog post about drugs and drug use and how both are depicted in the movies. Yet, such depictions often illustrate larger truths about drug abuse and the societies where such works are produced. They can even be instructional. Many films have...
Reefer Madness Is Truly Mad When Depicting Marijuana Use (Spoilers Ahead)
We recently discussed whether pop culture products such as the television series Breaking Bad glamorize drugs such as methamphetamine (meth). Given the myriad number of projects that have discussed drugs and drug use over the years, we’ll probably never have a...
The Benefits of Drug Decriminalization Laws
Is the war on drugs working? Some legislators in the U.S. state of Oregon apparently don’t believe that it has. They’re promoting an addiction-fighting idea that is controversial, to say the least. The idea? Decriminalizing small amounts of drugs. Drugs that aren’t...
Pop Musician Aaron Carter Also Suffers from Addiction
It's no mystery that Hollywood and the famous stars that inhabit the upper echelon of stardom have faced an alarmingly high number of addictions. This seems to be especially true for musicians and actors who have grown up in the spotlight. Aaron Carter is no...