substance abuse
6 Signs You Need Treatment Now
With the peak of the COVID-19 crisis just around the corner, everyone is scrambling to keep themselves safe and healthy. However, many…
Are Video Game Addictions Real?
Video game and gaming addictions are issues that have had profound effects on our youth. Since technology and recreational gaming became normal…
5 Children’s Books That Discuss Drugs and Alcohol
Many people often refer to addiction as a family disease. This is because everyone in the family, especially the children, are impacted…
Financial Stress and Substance Abuse
The relationship between financial stress and substance abuse exists in many different contexts. It’s a tragically ironic double-edged sword. There are dozens…
Addiction in the Workplace: Industries with the Highest Rates of Substance Abuse
Anyone who has impacted by addiction, whether it’s in their own life or the life of a loved one, knows that the…
Identifying Substance Use Disorder in a Friend or Loved One
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that nearly 19 million Americans currently struggle with substance use disorder. Alongside them…
SLEEP DISORDERS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Sleep problems caused by addiction are known as substance-induced sleep disorders, and a person’s sleep habits are known as sleep hygiene. The…
Addiction in Families: The Lesser-Discussed Casualties of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Addiction in families is becoming an increasingly common reality. Last year over 72,000 Americans succumbed to fatal drug overdose. Countless others escaped…
Mac Miller Dead of An Apparent Overdose
Mac Miller was found dead in his San Fernando Valley home just hours ago from an apparent overdose. A friend called the…
Occupational Hazard: Career Choices with the Highest Rates of Substance Abuse
When an individual embarks on a career path, they’re likely considering such pros and cons as salary, contribution to their fellow man,…
A Look at the Relationship between Substance Use and the Olympics
Substance use and the Olympics have been closely linked practically since the beginning of the modern-day games, and perhaps even during their…
Jobs with High Rates of Substance Abuse and Addiction
We’re all familiar with the relationship between addiction and music; however, there is also a variety of everyday professions in which substance…
The Importance of Perseverance in Recovery
Recovery Unplugged Texas was recently impacted by a tornado that left us temporarily unable to fully provide the unmatched level of care…
Is the Substance Abuse Gender Gap Narrowing?
As long as such factors have been clinically evaluated, men have generally been at a higher risk for substance abuse and chemical…
A Conversation with Singer/Songwriter Rob Tomlinson
Music was Rob Tomlinson’s first drug. During a recent conversation with Recovery Unplugged, the vocalist and guitarist for Philadelphia’s The Post War Dream confessed to rushing home every day after school to listen to videos from MTV-2 that he had recorded off of his cable box. “It was my first taste of downloading music illegally,” he quips before going on. The son of a performing musician, and self-proclaimed victim of bullying, Rob taught himself how to play guitar, in large part, to establish an identity for himself: “I was so afraid of being alone and not fitting in.”…
Dropkick Murphys’ New Album Tackles Addiction and Substance Abuse
It’s called 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory and it’s the ninth album from Quincy, MA punk legends Dropkick Murphys. The…
Recovery Unplugged Celebrates National Recovery Month
A day after recognizing International Awareness Day, Recovery Unplugged is now fittingly observer another important event within the recovery community.
This September marks the 27th annual National Recovery Month. Recovery Unplugged encourages all to lend their support and get involved. Sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), National Recovery Month is a 30-day call to action in which communities all over the country are encouraged to educate themselves about addiction while recognizing the extraordinary strength and courage of those in recovery. The event is also an opportunity to shed some light on many of the lesser-discussed aspects of addiction, including family involvement, associated mental illnesses, specifically vulnerable populations and ways to prevent substance abuse in individual communities….
Recovery Unplugged Austin Celebrates National Recovery Month
September has been designated National Recovery Month by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Now in its 27th year,…
Substance Abuse Study by Surgeon General
Big Shout out to the Dr Vivek Murthy the U.S. Surgeon General for planning to release the first-ever “substance use, addiction and health” report next year. He revealed strategies for this at this past weekend’s Unite to Face Addiction Rally. He hopes it will be a complete approach to substance abuse. According to his speech “We’re going to look at the best science on everything, from heroin and marijuana. To alcohol and prescription opioids…and we’re going to launch a national campaign to tackle the prescription drug crisis because we know that someone dies from an opioid overdose every 24 minutes in this country.”
Who is Dr. Vivek Murthy?…