Are Pain Meds Safe? –
Do you wonder if your pain meds are safe? New research shows that opioids and prescription pain drugs are not the best answer for chronic...
Health
Health Need help with substance use and mental health? Good health is more than just physical. Substance use and mental illness impact your health in many ways. Everyone needs information to cope, and Reach Out Recovery Health provides comprehensive articles and tools. In the Reach Out Recovery Health section you will find the latest addiction and recovery research and articles that will help you and your family’s recovery.
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Addiction Is Similar To Other Chronic Diseases
Addiction research has clarified the definition of addiction which is now called substance use disorder SUD and considered a chronic brain disease. Over the last...
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Pill Popping Nation
We have become a pill-popping nation. We have become conditioned to run to the doctor’s office with every complaint. Every time we feel different, we think...
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5 Ways Addiction Hijacks The Brain And Body –
Our most primal relationship is between our brain and body. When drugs or alcohol enter the mix, the communication between these two crucial systems is...
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What Is A Food Disorder –
When your roommate tells you: “I’ll do anything not to gain weight,” do you contemplate what she meant by it? Did you stop and think...
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Negative Psychology
From Psychology Today: Do you focus on positive self-talk only to end up in the same negative spiral? Wherever you turn, be it the pop-psychology...
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What Is Unresolved Grief
Unresolved grief is more common that we think. Grief for someone we lost is only one cause of lingering sadness. I grieved for my mother...
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4 Sneaky Types Of Digital Abuse
Digital abuse lurks in the dark shadows of cyberspace. Abusers use hateful comments on Instagram, vindictive Tweets, scathing Yelp reviews, and more to make victims...
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What Is Gambling Addiction
Gambling addiction is when the lure of the bet is all someone can think about. Gambling is defined as any risk of losing money or...
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When Emotional Pain Turns Physical
Pain is the body’s way of communicating that something is amiss. Treatment, exercise, and medication may be called for to heal the problem. The same...
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Poor Body Image Impacts Substance Use
Poor body image plagued me since childhood. I’ve always been the big girl. In pre-school, I compared the size of my thighs to the next...
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Zoo In Your Head
As a therapist, I see how people turn to substance use or behavior addictions (like gambling, or eating, or the Internet) in an attempt to...
