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Understanding addiction: From Admission to Recovery
Addiction isn’t an elusive and rare thing that happens to someone else. In reality, it’s something that affects and touches most people or families in some way and needs to be brought out into the open and discussed with compassion. A recent study found that - alcohol abuse affects as many as one in five NHS hospital inpatients. Public Health England has estimated - more than one in every 100 people...
October 4, 2019
Overdose Deaths Linked to Marketing and Doctor Greed
About 130 Americans die every day of - opioid overdoses - , and the majority of them are using valid prescriptions. Despite the risks, doctors continue to over-prescribe narcotic painkillers, which creates the perfect setting for addiction and misuse. Just as concerning is the money trail that traces directly to the rates in which doctors are prescribing these powerful and highly addictive drugs. Addicts...
February 28, 2019
A Beautiful Struggle: Addiction Survivors Share the Ways They Overcame the Substance Abuse That Stole Their Youth
“I have been doing drugs half my life... There had been times where I was thinking, ‘When is it going to be over? When am I going to be done?’ It took a long time, but with God’s help, I am here today and I am sober and clean.” - Patricio’s words serve as an inspiring example for us all: no matter what we’ve been through in the past, we can all become the heroes of our own stories. Some of the most...
March 2, 2018