by Cindy Spiegel | Mar 22, 2017 | Addiction
What are the signs that you’re enabling? If you’re a family member of someone in the throes of addiction, you need to know the difference between loving that person and enabling that person. It is hard to see someone we love make choices that are harmful...
by Cindy Spiegel | Feb 3, 2017 | Addiction
A Loved One’s Perspective Detaching with love from an addicted person is difficult, to say the least. Not only are we watching someone we love and care about go into a downward spiral, but we need to determine how to keep ourselves healthy in the process. Their...
by Cindy Spiegel | Jan 20, 2017 | Addiction, Recovery
It is widely understood that exercise is a major component of good overall health. Usually, those living in addiction do not prioritize their health. They ingest substances that negatively affect their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Depending on their...
by Cindy Spiegel | Jan 4, 2017 | Addiction
It has become a fairly well-known fact that the United States is suffering from an opioid epidemic. Opioid abuse refers to the misuse of opioid medications such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, Dilaudid, methadone, and morphine, as well as the abuse of the street drug...
by Cindy Spiegel | Dec 2, 2016 | Addiction
Drug addiction and alcoholism were believed, for many years, to be a matter of poor character, bad decision-making, and lack of willpower. In fact, to this day, there is some dispute as to whether addiction is a disease or a behavioral problem. Most drug and alcohol...
by Cristina Utti, MA, MFA | Aug 26, 2016 | Addiction
Substance abuse screening at the dentist’s office has become more common with the rise of opioid abuse. According to a study conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, 77 percent of dentists ask patients about drug use,...
