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...
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...
If you or someone you know has ever overdosed on drugs, know you are not alone; drug overdoses are a major public health crisis in the United States. In fact, 2020 saw a record number of overdose deaths, totaling around 84,000 people. This increase in recent years is...