Throughout North America — which encompasses the United States and Canada — we’ve been facing an epidemic of catastrophic, nearly apocalyptic proportions. Following the prescription painkiller problem that swept the nation from the la …
The drug situation in the United States has gotten serious indeed. Across the country, men and women of all ages and from all walks of life are finding themselves beholden to the self-destructive urges that result from a substance abuse pro …
Addiction is a really complex disease, very much different from virtually every other disease that exists. It’s only relatively recently that we came to learn addiction was a disease rather than a moral affliction, but popular opinion is …
Addiction is an incredibly complicated, enigmatic disease that’s unlike virtually any other disease that exists. Whereas most diseases are either physical or psychological, addiction exists somewhere in between. People who become addicted …
Addiction is an incredibly complicated and almost enigmatic disease that we’ve only just begun to understand. It used to be that addiction was seen as an issue of morality rather than a disease, resulting in addicts being treated as bad p …
There are many substances that have proven to be prone to abuse. Oftentimes the ones that most readily come to mind are alcohol and marijuana; while these substances are two of the most frequently abused of all mind-altering substances, the …
There are many different substances to which people can become addicted. Some of them are ones that humanity has quite a long history with — like alcohol, opium, and marijuana — while others have more recently been developed and reached …
In recent years, we’ve come to learn that addiction is actually a disease. In particular, it’s a brain disease that’s characterized by an obsessive, compulsive fixation on imbibing chemical intoxicants. However, the disease is unique …
Addiction is an extremely complicated disease, so it’s fitting that recovery would be an equally complicated venture. On the surface, it would seem that addiction recovery would be extremely straightforward: you just stop using drugs or a …
Due to the spike in rates of addiction we’ve seen in recent years, there’s a major stigma against those who suffer from addiction. People tend to see addicts for their behaviors, which are very frequently motivated by the fear they have …
