International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) is a global event held on August 31st each year and aims to raise awareness of substance overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have met with death or permanent injury as a result of...
Every 19 minutes someone dies from an opioid overdose. The rate of opioid overdose rose 14% from 2013 to 2014. If you work in the addiction treatment industry or if you simply keep up with the news out of interest, you have statistics like these memorized. It’s a long-awaited relief that the Obama administration also...
While suboxone is an effective tool in opiate addiction treatment and recovery, it does have quite a few downfalls that have made it a very controversial subject in the addiction recovery community. In our last #LetsTalkRecovery video, we quickly went over the cause and effects of Suboxone, but we wanted to talk about it in...
If you’ve made the decision to get help for drug or alcohol abuse, you’ve conquered one of the toughest challenges on the road to recovery. Before you begin your journey of learning how to live a sober lifestyle, you need to have a clean, substance-free system. Most addiction treatment programs begin with a medically-supervised detox to...
Any time disease strikes someone, that person’s family and friends are profoundly affected as well. Addiction is a disease that wreaks havoc on a person’s own life as well as the lives of their family members and friends. The addict, of course, does not mean for their loved ones to experience pain or worry, but...
Your loved one is addicted to drugs and/or alcohol and you are an emotional wreck. You feel a mix of guilt and shame and anger about their addiction, but at the same time, you are terrified that they will hurt themselves or someone else or even die. You notice jewelry or money is missing. The...
The L.A. Kings have had a difficult spring. First, the 2014 NHL champions failed to earn a spot in the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the first defending Cup champions to miss the postseason since 2007. Ten days later, forward Jarret Stoll was arrested for illegal drug possession. Stoll is alleged to have had 3.3 grams...
