Symptoms & Signs of Anxiety
Anxiety is a fear-based mental and physical state that commonly occurs in both adults and children. For most people, anxious feelings are an unpleasant but harmless fact of life…
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Anxiety is a fear-based mental and physical state that commonly occurs in both adults and children. For most people, anxious feelings are an unpleasant but harmless fact of life…
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Opioid drugs are highly habit-forming, addictive and susceptible to abuse. Opioids include heroin and narcotic painkillers like OxyContin and hydrocodone, among others. People may abuse these drugs to, but with repeated misuse, they cause changes to the brain that lead to withdrawal symptoms that are uncomfortable and painful.
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of women in the U.S. consume drugs or alcohol during their pregnancies[i]. Unfortunately, women in their childbearing years have increased chances of developing symptoms of a substance use disorder.
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Clinical depression may come and go even if a person suffering its symptoms does not receive treatment. Without intervention episodes typically last for six months to a…
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Vicodin is a well-known medication that contains two main ingredients: the opioid pain reliever hydrocodone and the non-opioid pain reliever acetaminophen.
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Many people addicted to drugs or alcohol underestimate the complexity of the task they face when they enter rehab, and when they continue treatment on an outpatient basis. One of their biggest mistakes is to focus too much on physical sobriety and not enough on emotional sobriety, a term coined by Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson back in 1958.
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Cocaine is a stimulant street drug widely known for its addictive properties. When entering treatment, anyone addicted to the drug must go through a period of detoxification or detox.
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Cold turkey is a slang term used to describe an immediate and complete halt to involvement in an addictive activity. This term is widely used to describe an abrupt cessation of the intake of drugs or alcohol. Anyone who chooses to detox from alcohol by going cold turkey without direct medical supervision runs a risk for severe, potentially fatal consequences. These risks are highest in people heavily addicted to drinking.
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