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Smoking cigarettes is widely known to be extremely harmful to your physical health, but it can impact your mental health, too. Cigarette smoking can make you more stressed and anxious, contribute to depression symptoms, and reduce your overall quality of life. While quitting isn’t easy, your physical and mental health will thank you. Here are …

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Dogs are some of the best companions for many reasons but their ability to create mindfulness and improve mental health may be at the top of the list. These built-in best friends carry the ability to teach all of us a little more about how to enjoy the small moments of life and take a …

A Man’s Best Friend: Our Dogs Leading Us to Mindfulness  Read More »

When I first got sober, my relationships with my immediate family members were pretty rocky. I didn’t know how to communicate with them, I felt a lot of shame and guilt about my past behaviors, and I didn’t share many similar beliefs with them. It was almost as though no matter what was said, we …

What to Do if You Don’t Have The Support of Your Family in Recovery Read More »

Smoking cigarettes is widely known to be extremely harmful to your physical health, but it can impact your mental health, too. Cigarette smoking can make you more stressed and anxious, contribute to depression symptoms, and reduce your overall quality of life. While quitting isn’t easy, your physical and mental health will thank you. Here are …

6 Ways Your Mental Health Will Improve When You Stop Smoking Read More »

Last year, the United States passed a grim milestone of more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths annually. The vast majority of these drug overdose deaths involved fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than heroin and morphine.[1,2] When you see a number as large as 100,000, it can be easy to think of …

How Fentanyl Test Strips Can Prevent Accidental Overdose Read More »

The standard treatment for alcoholism has changed a lot over the last century. When Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded in 1935, it was celebrated as a cutting-edge approach to treating alcoholism. Before AA, many alcoholics had nowhere to go for support other than the hospital, and many doctors who tried to treat alcoholics were only …

Reframe: A New Way to Quit or Cut Back on Your Drinking Read More »

When most people think of drugs, they think of drugs that are sold on the streets such as heroin, meth, or cocaine. They may even think of prescription drugs like Xanax or Adderall. However, there are many drugs that aren’t illegal yet because they are too new to know much about. Many of these drugs …

Gas Station Drugs Can Contain Addictive Substances Hidden in Plain Sight Read More »