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A lot of people try to relieve anxious feelings with substances like drugs or alcohol. But using drugs and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol don’t make anxiety go away. Usually, the opposite is true.

After struggling with addiction challenges, spending quality time in a treatment program is your chance to begin again; here’s how you can make the most of your stay in drug rehab.

To help you avoid rehab center scams, we’ve put together a guide explaining some of the many ways unethical rehab centers exploit addiction.

Relapse doesn’t mean addiction treatment didn’t or can’t work. It’s a reminder of the chronic nature of addiction and a sign that you may need further treatment or aftercare support. You can help prevent relapse by knowing the warning signs, the common triggers, and how and why these challenges happen.

When you are ready to face addiction, you will want to seek out professional addiction treatment, which consists of detox and rehab. While treatment, rehab, and detox are closely related, they aren’t synonyms.

Knowing when it’s time for drug rehab can be tricky. After all, there isn’t an exact date or time marked on a calendar that tells us when our substance use has become a problem. Here are 5 major categories of behavior to help you determine if it’s time to seek treatment and start rehab.

Few if any people overcome challenges in life without the helping hand of a friend, family member, or another support person. It is healthy and normal for people to lean on people in times of distress and moments of despair. Friends, family, and even coworkers can...

Prescription overdose occurs when someone has an adverse physiological reaction as a result of ingesting too much of a particular drug. This article will detail the most common types of prescription pills that lead to overdoses, and we will explain the signs of potential overdose.

The term psychoactive simply means that a substance affects the mind, brain, and nervous system. The scientific term for marijuana is cannabis, which encompasses its variety of forms and compounds (APA, 2013). It is without question that cannabis is a psychoactive substance. The prominent question in modern American politics is in regards to its legalization and medicinal use.