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Healing Addiction From Your Gut: Why Choosing a Nutrition-Focused Rehab Is Important

May 16, 2016 / By / Personal Resources

Most people are in a state of malnutrition and physical deterioration when they enter addiction rehab. Proper nutrition helps these issues and supports mental health. Common medical conditions in addicts vary by what substance they’ve abused and include hypertension, cardiovascular disease, malnourishment, gastrointestinal issues, mental health disorders, kidney and liver damage, and obesity or emaciation. …

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Consultants Offer Helping Hand on Road to Addiction Recovery

May 16, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / Addiction Recovery

When drugs or alcohol become a problem for someone you care about, it’s time for decisions: What are the treatment options? What’s the best fit? And once you find help, how can you convince your loved one to accept it and follow through?

4 Types of Love Addiction

April 28, 2016 / By / Sex Addiction

Love addiction is a complicated psychological condition that comes in many forms. If you think you may be a love addict, understanding love addiction and all its types is an important way to move forward. Knowledge is power, and when you realize that you are making choices that are leading you away from a healthy …

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Why Does Schizophrenia in Women Differ From Schizophrenia in Men?

April 27, 2016 / By / Schizophrenia

Recent evidence from a Canadian research group indicates that a combination of underlying factors may help explain why schizophrenia in women differs substantially from schizophrenia in men. Women affected by the severe mental illness schizophrenia often develop initial symptoms at a later age than their male counterparts. In addition, they often develop symptoms that differ …

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Reducing the Risk of Meth Use in the Gay Community

April 25, 2016 / By / Methamphetamines

Methamphetamine use among gay men may have decreased somewhat since its height in the 1990s, but it is still a major problem among this subset of the LGBTQ community. Treating and reducing use of this dangerous illegal drug remains a priority for a group of people disproportionately affected by drug abuse and addiction. Crystal meth …

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Why Am I Hooked to My Smartphone? Answers From Neuroscience

April 25, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / Behavioral Addiction

Have you ever wondered why your smartphone is so hard to put down or why you can’t resist reading that incoming text? Why do you suddenly feel vulnerable when you find yourself without your smartphone — a condition described with terms such as “nomophobia” or no-mobile-phone phobia?

Staged Accidents Send Strong Message About Drunk Driving on Prom Night

April 18, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / Adolescent Issues, News and Research

Prom is all about dresses and corsages, tuxedos and bow ties, but it’s also all too often about drinking. Prom typically kicks off the last month before graduation for high school seniors, which means that it is a time of both exceptional elation and major stress.

The Effects of Methamphetamine on Women’s Health

April 15, 2016 / By / Methamphetamines

Methamphetamine, or meth for short, causes a lot of negative health effects both in the short term and with long-term use in both men and women. For women, though, there are particular health effects that make meth especially harmful. Meth is one of the most addictive substances of abuse, and there is no such thing …

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Giving Young People in Recovery a Voice

April 11, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / News and Research

What happens when young people in addiction recovery are brought together and empowered to better themselves and their world?

Our Long, Strange Addiction Treatment Trip

April 4, 2016 / By Promises Behavioral Health / News and Research

If our country’s 200-plus year history of addiction treatment tells us one thing it’s this: There is little that people won’t try to overcome an addiction to alcohol or drugs.

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