by Carley Smiddy | May 30, 2019 | Addiction Recovery, Featured Articles
As our society is moving more towards making attempts to understand and include historically marginalized groups, it is advantageous to open up a discussion surrounding an often underrepresented and ignored group of individuals within addiction recovery. This group is...
by Carley Smiddy | Mar 3, 2019 | Drug Facts & Resources, Featured Articles
Addiction treatment has evolved through the decades and one of the major shifts that facilitated this positive pivot into a direction that focusing on healing rather than punitive punishment was the removal of moralizing this disease. Once we discovered that those who...
by Carley Smiddy | Feb 27, 2019 | Drug Facts & Resources, Featured Articles
This past Tuesday, during Trump’s State of the Union address, we witnessed more of the empty promises and inaction that has riddled the addiction community since he took office. Before we dive into the lack of pragmatic solutions and the promissory notions of...
by Carley Smiddy | Aug 29, 2018 | Addiction Treatment & Recovery, Featured Articles
Recovery is not all doom and gloom! Recovery is exactly what you make of it. When things seem to fall into a lull and boredom begins to set it, it is high time we think outside the box for creative new therapeutic strategies. One such approach is Movie Therapy. Also...
by Carley Smiddy | Aug 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Health & Wellness
It’s that time of year again…back to school! For many parents this is an exciting time as the summer months can get long when trying to balance full-time jobs, housework, and caring for children that are home for the summer. For those in recovery and enrolled in...
by Carley Smiddy | Jun 5, 2018 | Drug Facts & Resources, Featured Articles
The Truth About Tramadol In recent news, you may have read or watched segments about the rise in Tramadol related deaths and medical complications. Tramadol is not an opiate, but the medication acts similarly to opiates. Tramadol is non-opioid pain reliever used to...
