Common Issues Faced by Adult Children of Someone with an Addiction
Substance abuse affects everyone that loves someone with an addiction. It can be difficult, painful, and frustrating to watch a friend, sibling, or partner fall into the cycle of addiction, knowing that they must make the choice for themselves to seek treatment. For the children of people with addictions, however, the damaging effects of substance […]
Finding Purpose May Be the Key to Happiness
We all dedicate a large majority of our lives striving towards happiness. We may try to find it through money and material wealth, service to others, love and companionship, or professional success and power. We sometimes turn to artificial means to generate something close to the experience of happiness by using drugs and alcohol, risking […]
Working Out Your Mind
Experts are beginning to postulate that the concept of working out your mind may soon be considered as important and commonplace as working out your body. Most people already know the benefits of physical exercise for health and wellbeing, and there are entire industries built around physical fitness. While the results of mental exercise may […]
Incarceration vs. Treatment: Criminalizing Addiction
America imprisons its citizens at a startling rate and often for non-violent crimes. With the most incarcerated individuals per capita of any country in the world, and an epidemic of prison over-crowding, there is a growing call for the release of non-violent drug offenders. Prisons are not equipped to provide adequate treatment for addiction, and […]
