Life tends to come unexpectedly. It’s this rather chaotic event that takes place between birth and death. Of course, the in between varies for everybody, but this long drawn out schematic is a blank canvas for most at least. As human bein …
The sands of time stop for no mortal living creature and oh what a time it is to be living right now. We are given such short lives and thrown limitless options on how to pass the hours on the clock. The hours turn to days, the days to week …
The Bubonic Plague, AIDS, and Addiction/Alcoholism- what do they all have in common you ask? They all share the same value and are all widespread epidemics. Sure, alcoholism isn’t contagious necessarily unless you take genetics into consi …
Addiction and alcoholism can come knocking abruptly for some and takes its time deconstructing lives for others. One way or another, the day comes where we wake up and there is no denying there is some sort of a problem. It’s blatantly ri …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Despite the many people who don’t want to believe it, addiction is a disease. Specifically, it’s a chronic, progressive, relapsing disease of the brain that affects individuals on both psychological and physical levels. Over the past ce …
