How to Recognize Clinical Depression in the Early Stages
Clinical depression is an alternate term for major depression[i], one of the most serious and widespread mental health conditions in the U.S. Recognition of the onset of…
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During my twenty-five year career in substance abuse treatment, I’ve frequently heard family members (and clients) insist that "Alcohol isn't his/her/my problem - drugs are!" and "Alcoholism isn't his/her/my problem - addiction is!" as if the same principles of recovery from chemical dependency don't apply to any dysfunctional situation where alcohol either isn't present or isn't present enough to be identified as the primary drug-of-choice.
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Clinical depression is an alternate term for major depression[i], one of the most serious and widespread mental health conditions in the U.S. Recognition of the onset of…
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In 2015, an estimated 16.1 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. This number represented 6.7%…
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Homemade illicit drugs can be just as dangerous as heroin, cocaine or misused prescription medication. Intoxicating concoctio
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Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed substances in the U.S. It is also one of the most deadly. When calculating the num
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Prescription medications are consumed by tens of millions of Americans each day and current figures show that medication-rela
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Overdoses are toxic reactions that occur when the effects of a given substance push the brain and body too far outside th
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An overdose is a severe, potentially fatal reaction to substance-induced changes inside the body. This reaction can occur
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Morphine[i] is a widely used prescription opioid medication to treat moderate and severe pain symptoms. Unfortunately, some p
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Heroin is perhaps the most notorious drug derived from the seed pod of the opium poppy. Compared to the number of people who
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