August is officially recognized as National Wellness Month, and it’s critically important to maintain optimal wellness in addiction recovery. Focusing on wellness helps us to look beyond the basic-need su...
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Accessing Addiction Treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic
It’s getting harder and harder for people to get addiction treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic even in the face of increasing need for help. Overdoses are rising dramatically as states slash treatment budg...
Helping a Friend with Addiction
Today marks International Friendship Day 2020, a day that compels us to take a look at how important our friends have been in our lives. For many who are struggling with drug addiction or mental illness, friend...
Addiction in the Black Community: Origins, Impact and Barriers to Effective Treatment
As the United States continues to confront racial tensions, dialogue about police brutality, economic inequality, housing and job discrimination and other issues has become more and more common. One element of ...
An Addiction Guide for Colleagues: Encountering Substance Abuse in the Workplace
When it comes to dealing with a colleague’s addiction in the workplace, many of us have either been there or been them. We’ve either experienced a co-worker struggling with drugs or alcohol right befo...
Recovery Unplugged Examines Addiction among Minorities during National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month 2020
July marks National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, an event established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to examine the impact, causes and sustaining factors of mental healt...
A New Way of Looking at the Connection between Video Games, Addiction and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
As Recovery Unplugged observes 2020 National Video Game Day, we can’t help but flip the script on how the world views the relationship between video games, addiction and mental health. Like everything else in...
Eight Tips for A Sober Holiday Weekend
With Independence Day just around the corner, it’s another opportunity for millions of people to connect with friends and loved ones for celebration, however that may look in the age of COVID-19. The unfortun...
Recovery Unplugged Talks LGBTQ+ Addiction and Treatment As We Cap Off Pride Month 2020
June is National Pride Month, an event where visibility and acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities are encouraged. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we had to rethink how to celebrate this year. As early as April,...
Insurance Coverage for Addiction Treatment: What You Need to Know
June 28 marks National Insurance Awareness Day 2020, an event that recognizes the importance of proper insurance coverage in all aspects of life, particularly medical care and behavioral health. The concept of ...
Mixing Meth and Alcohol: What Are the Risks?
When you compound substance abuse by mixing alcohol with other drugs, it’s always a potentially deadly move. Mixing meth and alcohol is particularly deadly and unfortunately common. As alcohol endures as the ...
Father’s Day, Addiction Recovery, and the Power of Music
Like most holidays, Father’s Day and addiction have a complex relationship. This day means something a little different (and I dare say a little more) to fathers, sons and daughters who have gotten another ch...
Tips for Finding a Suboxone Clinic Near You
Suboxone® (buprenorphine and naloxone) has emerged as a game-changing resource in addiction care and a pillar of the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) approach to treating opioid addiction. Finding the right...
Passing the Smell Test: A Parent’s Resource for Knowing What Drugs Smell Like
They say that smell is the sense that is closest aligned with memory. It can also be your best weapon in identifying whether or not your loved one has a drug problem. If you’ve been suspicious that a family m...
Addiction, Mental Health and Music: What’s the Connection?
We have just concluded National Mental Health Month, an event that promotes awareness, advocacy, support and empowerment of those living with mental health issues; aims to reduce the stigma associated with thes...
Teen Self-Esteem and Addiction: Let’s Talk about It
As Recovery Unplugged observes National Teen Self-Esteem Month, we would be entirely remiss if we didn’t talk about the profound role that self-esteem issues play in the development and growth of addiction. T...
Addiction and Memorial Day: Recovery Unplugged Honors All of Our Fallen Military
As we observe Memorial Day 2020, Recovery Unplugged honors all fallen members of our nation’s armed forces who gave their lives while in service. Their singular sacrifice represents what President Lincoln so ...
This One Time, I went to Rehab in Mexico
Anyone in recovery knows that sometimes you can find happiness and peace where you least expect it, and that it often takes a few tries to stay clean. These two realities are put front and center in a piece wri...
Addiction and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): What’s the Connection?
As Recovery Unplugged observes 2020 National Mental Health Month, we’re taking a look at some of the primary mental health issues that impact active alcohol and drug users, as well as those within the recover...
National Women’s Health Week: Examining the Unique Health Challenges Faced by Women Both In and Out of Recovery
As National Women’s Health Week 2020 comes to a close, we are left with glaring indicators that the event, and the awareness toward women’s health that it brings, needs to continue throughout the year. The ...