How a Parent’s Love Can Hurt the Addict

Feb 4, 2021

How a Parent’s Love Can Hurt the Addict Addiction is a devastating disease. Like a raging tornado, suffering addicts typically destroy almost everything and everyone they touch, including family and friends. Parents of young adults and adolescents often suffer the...

Staying Motivated in Recovery

Feb 2, 2021

Staying Motivated in Recovery Maintaining sobriety seems like a daunting challenge as time goes on and your motivation begins to diminish. However, there are many helpful steps that people in recovery use to keep their spirits high and to help them remain focused on...

Understand and Avoid the Temptation to Use Drugs During the Holidays

Dec 29, 2020

Understand and Avoid the Temptation to Use Drugs During the Holidays While media portrays the holiday season as a time for family togetherness and joyous revelry, not everyone feels like celebrating. If you struggle with drug addiction, the temptation to use may feel...

Why Holidays Can Be So Depressing

Dec 16, 2020

Why Holidays Can Be So Depressing The holidays can be depressing for a lot of people, even those who don’t struggle with mental challenges such as drug addiction, alcoholism, anxiety or depression. Some have family or friends they don’t click with and only see during...

Florida Drug Use Statistics

Dec 7, 2020

Florida Drug Use Statistics With drug addiction and overdose continuing to plague the U.S., many people are realizing that the “War on Drugs” being waged by law enforcement is not doing enough to reduce these numbers. In fact, law enforcement efforts may...