Researchers have known for some time that genetics is one of the risk factors for substance abuse. One of the big questions remaining is why are some people at...
Ways to Practice Self-Care in Recovery Triumph on the journey of recovery always uses multiple paths. Long-term recovery success depends on examining, attending to, and maintaining the parts of...
Five Unexpected Benefits of Sobriety When you struggle with addiction, your life is nowhere near how you imagined it ever would be. Somehow the life you’re living is not...
Living a Fulfilling Life after Addiction Addiction is estimated to affect as many as 20 million people in the U.S. and nearly 7 percent of people across the industrialized...
Dating While in Recovery When you’re in a recovery program for addiction, you should be focusing on yourself and ways you can live a sober life. A lot of...
Ways to Overcome Stress in Addiction Recovery The use of drugs or alcohol often begins as a way to self-medicate the symptoms of stress. Unfortunately, seemingly harmless habits can...
Researchers at Indiana University’s School of Medicine have developed a blood test that identifies biomarkers in the blood which can help to determine the severity of a patient’s pain....
New research conducted by a team at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore has identified a neural pathway that is linked to addiction and depression. Their...
The results of a survey conducted by The Hartford, a leading property and casualty insurance company, have found the current opioid epidemic is having a “tangible and growing impact”...
