by Valiant | Jan 25, 2016 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse
1. Breathe. When someone you care about is battling addiction the stress affects everyone, not just the addict. If you are chronically stressed and full of negative emotions this can affect your own mental and physical health. Take some deep breaths and get yourself...
by Valiant | Jan 18, 2016 | Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse, Prescription drug abuse, teen drug use
The 2015 Monitoring the Future survey from the National Institute of Health has shown that teen drug trends and substance abuse among adolescents has stayed stable or even declined some from past years. This survey showed that there was a decrease among the use of...
by Valiant | Dec 21, 2015 | Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse, medical studies, teen drug use
A new study by researchers at Duke University shows that teens who witness substance abuse are more likely to engage in short term antisocial behavior, and this antisocial behavior typically occurs on the same day that the substance abuse was witnessed. The risk of...
by Valiant | Nov 13, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse, mental illness and disorders
A new report shows a surprising trend, one that researchers did not expect to find and that they are calling an unnoticed epidemic. According to researchers from Princeton University the current suicide rates and the rate of substance abuse in middle aged Americans...
by Valiant | Sep 18, 2015 | Addiction treatment, Alcohol abuse, Drug abuse
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has unveiled a plan to deal with the epidemic of substance abuse in the USA and North America, but can she actually pull it off? The plan has a many pronged approach, and this is necessary because drug and alcohol abuse does not...