How to Break a Child’s Video Game Addiction
Concerns about technology addiction long predate the digital flat screen: it was 1977 when Marie Winn published the first edition of The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, and the Family [...]
Becoming Addicted Later in Life
Addiction is a disease that can happen to anyone, regardless of their ethnicity, background, values, gender identity or age. The baby boom generation is one of the largest segments [...]
Postpartum Psychosis and Postpartum Depression
They don’t call it “labor” for nothing. Maybe the word should be applied not only to delivering a baby, but to the entire year-or-two of enduring pregnancy’s physical challenges [...]
C-Section Awareness | Cesarean Sections and Postpartum Depression
Pregnancy and childbirth can be an emotional roller coaster. It’s common for moms-to-be and brand-new moms to experience feelings like joy, anxiety, excitement and fear, sometimes simultaneously. But motherhood [...]
Alcohol Use Disorder: Raising Awareness
Chances are if you’re reading this article, you know someone who struggles with alcohol abuse – a friend, a family member, a co-worker or you yourself. My name is Susan [...]
A Month of Awareness for Autism
April is Autism Awareness Month (also called Autism Acceptance Month). The word “autism” worries many parents, but the condition is nothing to panic over. What many people think they [...]
7 Reasons Why People Self-Harm & How to Get Them Help
Self-harm—also called self-injury, self-abuse, self-mutilation, and often “cutting” when it involves a sharp object—is known to occur in at least 10 to 20 percent of the U. S. population. Around [...]
Do Inhalants Cause Brain Damage?
If you’ve ever worked in a manufacturer’s legal department, you’re probably familiar with discussions on how to avoid liability for damages done by someone’s using products in an inappropriate manner. [...]
The Link Between Exercise Addiction & Eating Disorders
Exercise addiction is seen in individuals with and without eating disorders, but it has for some time now been identified as a major contributor in eating disorders. Most commonly, [...]
The State of Addiction and Recovery in the Age of COVID-19
Overcoming Diseases of Isolation Addictions of all kinds, including alcoholism, have long been called the diseases of isolation. As you can imagine, this concern has only intensified due to the [...]
What You Need to Know About Postoperative Depression and Pain Management
Managing postoperative pain in addiction recovery can be quite challenging. You were able to successfully graduate from addiction treatment and your recovery is in forward motion. Of course, recovery [...]
Why We Self-Sabotage (& How You Can Stop for Good)
When we decide to pursue recovery, we learn a lot about ourselves. Throughout the process of individual therapy sessions, group meetings, and 12-Step programming, many of us realize a [...]
