The natural high cannot be compared to the drug rush Any time you do something fun, exciting, or meaningful, your brain produces dopamine, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel a rush of reward and pleasure. Dopamine has to do with motivation; the first time you experience...
The emergence of the opioid epidemic has made it challenging for patients who legitimately struggle with chronic pain stemming from nerve damage, unhealed injuries, multiple surgeries, weight problems and other health ailments. As doctors prescribe less opioids, patients who need pain killers are left in...
What is FMLA? The acronym stands for The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which enables employees to take extended time off from work to take care of personal or family needs that may include maternity or paternity leave, elder care, and substance abuse treatment. FMLA...
In a perfect world, nobody would abuse drugs because substance abuse harms your body, but in a world full of pain, grief, and hardship, people turn to drug and alcohol abuse because they’re trying to escape the pain inside and sometimes they feel like nothing...
What’s more fun than beer, weed, and coke? It’s that colorful mysterious gelcap that’s being sold and passed around at millions of raves in the United States. Known on the streets as “Molly,” short for the word “molecule,” it has replaced ecstasy as the new...
An Eating Disorder (ED) as defined by NEDA is: "...
Dear Anxiety,
I am massively resentful towards you for the constant strain you put on my daily life.
You take over my simplest, most innocent thoughts and turn them into negative experiences. You then proceed to attack every part of my body from my head...
Now, for the moment y'all have been waiting for, as curated from sober people in Orange County, here is Part 2 of fun things to do sober!...
If you have been sober for a couple of days so far, chances are you have heard someone say the word 'grateful' in a sentence.
If you have been sober for 1-2 weeks, chances are you have heard the word grateful used in so many sentences...
More often than not as a substance abuser, isolation is part of our story.
Maybe we have a few 'using' or 'drinking' friends, but generally we harbor feelings of loneliness and social anxiety.
Some of us may claim that we're buddy-buddy with our dealer, our...