It is important to prevent drug use from starting, because once an addiction develops, the brain undergoes changes that make recovery more difficult. Preventing drug abuse is usually a more successful...
Substance abuse issues such as alcohol and drug addiction can impact anyone regardless of age, race, gender, ethnicity, or economic status. While the majority of people who use alcohol and drugs, including...
The College Experience: How Each Gender’s Substance Use Differed The word “college” spurs some associations right away: living away from parents for the first time, managing a budget and schoolwork...
If you’re a part of the LGBTQ+ community and want to meet someone to date, more often than not your first stop will be the local gay bar. Gay bars...
Addiction is an epidemic. It affects people of all ages and backgrounds. When reading articles about the effects of substance use disorders, many Americans learn how addiction specifically affects the...
What is addiction? Is it simply a bad decision a person keeps making, or actually a complex disease? Is it the consequence of a moral failing, or a form of...
Addiction recovery is challenging for many reasons, one of which is the potential for relapse. The Recovery Village recently surveyed 2,136 American adults who either wanted to stop drinking alcohol or had...
One fact that many people who struggle with drug addiction fail to realize is that their actions affect everyone around them, particularly children. A primary characteristic of substance abuse is...
The high. The withdrawals. The bad decisions. These are the effects that drugs have on the brain that drive addiction. But what actually causes these experiences on a chemical level?...
Not all addicts are violent, and those who are may be violent only to themselves and not to others. But the association between drug addiction and violence is strong enough...