How You Can Nurture Your Recovery Through Nature
Recovery requires addressing the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual consequences of addiction. Substance use affects relationships and all other areas of life. As a result, [...]
How Trauma Works as a Trigger for Mental Health and Substance Issues
When someone is struggling with a mental health condition, they often have a relatively fragile emotional or mental state (sometimes both) that can be easily [...]
A Mother’s Support of Their LGBTQI Child During Pride Month
What is Pride Month beyond seeing rainbows everywhere during the month of June? Pride Month occurs every June and is the commemoration of the [...]
Teen Mental Health Vs Adult Mental Health: An Overview
We’ve made a lot of progress in Western culture when it comes to recognizing and normalizing mental health conditions and their various treatments, but there’s [...]
What is Fentanyl Used For, and Why Do People Abuse It?
Have you ever popped an Advil and then, after not receiving the desired effects, taken another? Maybe even two? This happens with patients who have [...]
Adult and Adolescent Mental Health Statistics
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness and promote education about mental health concerns. Mental health is an essential part [...]
How Should I Refer to Someone Struggling With Alcohol Misuse?
Have you ever been called a name that just rubbed you the wrong way? Did it make you feel suddenly boxed in, or associated with [...]
How Sexual Assault Affects the Mind and the Body
Sexual assault refers to sexual contact, coercion, behavior or forced conduct that occurs without the explicit consent of the other individual. It is a [...]
How to Tell the Difference Between Problem Drinking and Alcoholism
As a man, would you consider having four drinks in a day, consecutively or spread over a few hours, normal or a problem? As a [...]
Can Marijuana Be A Gateway Drug?
The conversation around marijuana is no longer black and white. In some states, marijuana is promoted as a borderline-miraculous plant in terms of its healing [...]