Does alcohol help anxiety, or does it make it worse? If you have anxiety, there’s a good chance you’ve turned to alcohol as a way to help you relieve any uncomfortable symptoms. In fact, the practice self-medicating using mood-altering substances like...
If you have a loved one with an alcohol or drug addiction, you probably know that it hurts to watch someone you care about succumb to harmful habits. This is especially true when they don’t want to acknowledge the problem, as it can leave you wondering how to help an...
Injecting drugs into the body is a popular but dangerous method of getting high off illegal narcotics or prescription medications. In fact, the number of people who inject drugs has grown exponentially over the last 10 years. And this has led to a significant rise in...
Heroin is one of the most addictive substances in the country, and an addiction to heroin can quickly unravel a person’s life and destroy what they spent years building. However, abstaining from opioids like heroin after prolonged use is no easy feat....
Following the holiday season, many people participate in what is known worldwide as Dry January. This 31-day sobriety challenge starting the month of January was established 10 years ago by a U.K. charity called Alcohol Change UK. The organization started the campaign...
