Deaths from heroin have more than doubled within the past five years. All across the United States, towns are being hit increasingly hard with unprecedented levels of overdoses. The heroin epidemic is unlike anything people have seen. Cincinnati was hit especially hard over the past month, with the county seeing a massive 200 overdoses in...
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...
Whether or not you have been keeping up with current events lately, you may have heard about something called fentanyl. Maybe you’ve seen it time and again on your Facebook feed and just haven’t had the time to investigate further or maybe it’s something you did a quick speed read through before you headed to work...
Prescription drug abuse is not as rare as many might think. In fact, 23.5 million Americans are currently addicted to drugs or alcohol and only a mere fraction of these people get the addiction treatment that they need. Often times, the problem starts out innocently enough. There are cases of mothers who start taking painkillers...
Teens who are recovering from addiction need an alternative to the traditional high school experience, and a solution may be gaining popularity: recovery schools. Even though high schools strive to be drug-free, they usually are not. Students have a hard time making new friends when their old friends are sitting next to them in class...
Drug addiction is a deadly disease and the drug effects on the human body are harsh. The disease of addiction is one of the toughest to beat but there are some substances that are harder to kick than others. This is because of the chemicals that make up certain drugs. Researchers have recently looked into...
Two of the most common questions we at The Discovery House are asked are “Why is it so hard to recover from substance addiction?’ and “What is the best way to get sober again?” In order to understand the answers to these questions, you must first understand the nature of the disease. DrugAbuse.gov points out...
After President Obama announced the addiction treatment services package extension for the heroin epidemic, it’s time to see the budgets that are going to be allocated to the different states. With a budget proposal of $1.1 billion, Michael Botticelli, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said that the budget distribution...
From residential drug therapy programs to outpatient drug rehab, every person has very specific needs when it comes to kicking their drug addiction and luckily there are many ways to treat addiction. Here at The Discovery House, we meet our residents where they are in their addiction, assess their needs, and provide them with a...
If you are in alcohol or drug addiction recovery, you’ve likely heard the saying “relapse is a part of recovery.” It echoes off the walls in most recovery rooms and group meetings and even though it holds some truth to it, it’s not our most favorite saying. While we don’t want to oversimplify relapse, it’s...
