Is Drug Addition Hereditary? Understanding Your Risk Factors

Mar 3, 2021

Is Drug Addition Hereditary? Understanding Your Risk Factors Blue eyes, curly hair, and how you perceive the taste of cilantro: These are all physical traits that can be linked to genetics. Can addiction be linked specifically to a person’s genome in the same way? The...

What is the Best Way to Love an Addict?

Feb 15, 2021

What is the Best Way to Love an Addict? Loving someone in active addiction to alcohol or drugs can be extremely difficult. The pain that the suffering addict inflicts on themselves and others can be indescribable. Hurt feelings and worse abound. The suffering addict,...

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...

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...

Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Lasting Impact of Their Parents’ Disease

Jul 10, 2020

Adult Children of Alcoholics: The Lasting Impact of Their Parents’ Disease Over 7% of the American population struggles with an alcohol use disorder. Six people die of alcohol poisoning per day. Have you ever wondered how many of these people have children? Or are you...