Ever struggled with a tough diagnosis besides addiction? Perhaps it was an autoimmune disorder, like diabetes, or a mental illness, like bipolar disorder. Maybe it was a sexually transmitted disease that you were embarrassed to talk about–or it may have been a...
Elderly Substance Use & Alzheimer’s Disease Most of us don’t picture an elderly person when we picture someone with an alcohol or drug addiction. Yet as of 2018, nearly 1 million older adults (age 65 and over) live with a substance use disorder diagnosis. If...
You’ve decided that you’re finally doing it: you’re going to get help for your substance abuse disorder. Breaking the News About Rehab You’re taking that first step to sobriety through residential rehab, but you’re not quite sure how to break the news to your family,...
Dependency: Examining Key Differences Both men and women are equally as likely to develop a substance use disorder. However, women face more social judgement regarding this issue. To better understand this inequality, let’s examine the four key differences between the...
Immunocompromised people have a weakened immune system in comparison to the rest of the population. Their bodies may experience a compromised defense system for an array of reasons: cancer, cancer treatment and therapies, genetic diseases, autoimmune diseases,...
