What Is Drug Abuse
There is a lot of confusion around substance use, drug abuse, and addiction. The term “drug abuse” implies use of only the most dangerous drugs...
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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What Is Sexual Addiction
The National Council on Sexual Addiction Compulsivity estimated that 6%-8% of Americans are sex addicts, which is 18 million – 24 million people. Sexual addiction...
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Why Conduct Disorder Is A Serious Problem
From Medical News Today Conduct disorder is a common and highly impairing psychiatric disorder that usually emerges in childhood or adolescence. It is characterized by...
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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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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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Is It Use, Misuse, Or Addiction
While the current DSM-5 focuses on the level of substance use disorders as mild, moderate, and severe, it can still be valuable to look at ...
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6 Reasons Recovery Fails
Recovery fails, but not because of the addicts. But don’t call people with Substance or Alcohol Use Disorders addicts. After twenty years of seeing millions...
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The Reality Of Alcohol Abuse On America
On top of the opioid crisis, meth destruction, and other drug horrors, we still have an alcohol problem in this country. In these complicated times,...
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Bring Back Student Motivation
By Thomas Honsa: Student motivation has taken a dive. What happened? Anyone who’s passed a required professional certification or licensing exam, or whose dreams depended...
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Why Significant Childhood Trauma Is So Tough To Process
From Dr. Tian Dayton, Forgiving Parents: Breaking the Chain of Anger, Resentment and Pain – Triggered pain is so confusing to decode and deal with....
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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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Alcohol Impact on Seniors’ Health
As people begin to age there is an increasing alcohol impact on the body. In middle age people may now find themselves having consequences to...
