How Addiction Can Affect Your Family

Addiction can affect your family in many ways, but the emotional toll that it takes can lead to lifetime anxieties and mistrust. Addiction affects everybody in your family, whether you realize it or not. Even young children are acutely aware when one parent is...

Handling Stress During Recovery

Getting sober from drugs or alcohol is difficult enough, but add to that handling stress during recovery and it can be overwhelming. Recovery and withdrawal come with their fair share of stress. However, if you are also dealing with outside pressures from your family,...

Avoiding Alcohol While Traveling

Avoiding alcohol while traveling can be difficult for many, as the idea of relaxing with a drink in hand is such a stereotype for vacationing. However, it is possible to go on an amazing trip without risking your sobriety. It just takes some planning and commitment....

Understanding Alcoholism as a Disease

Accepting alcoholism as a disease can go a long way in helping to understand the ways that addiction can affect the body and mind. For many years, health professionals have classified addiction as a disease, but it is still not largely thought of in that way by...

Quitting Cold Turkey: Does it Work?

Many people with addictions wonder if quitting cold turkey works. The truth is that a lot depends on what substances they’re using as well as their health and history. There are a lot of severe risks for suddenly quitting if you’re using things like opioids or even...

The Financial Cost of Alcoholism

While everybody knows there are dangers with long-term heavy drinking, the financial cost of alcoholism can also add up quickly. Not only are alcoholic drinks themselves expensive, but there are a lot of side-effects of drinking that can hurt your wallet. For example,...