by Dana Hinders | May 29, 2024 | Addiction Recovery
Travel can be stressful for those in the early stages of recovery. Residential treatment emphasizes the value of a routine for staying sober, but traveling throws your regular schedule out the window. Staff at Mountain Laurel Recovery Center’s Pennsylvania drug...
by Dana Hinders | May 9, 2024 | Drug Addiction, Mental Health
Addiction can take many forms. However, one of the most commonly misunderstood is polysubstance abuse. Polysubstance abuse refers to a situation in which an individual is abusing two or more addictive substances without having a clear preference for any specific one....
by Dana Hinders | Apr 25, 2024 | Addiction
It would certainly be convenient if we could predict who would suffer from addiction based on their personality traits. Unfortunately, there is no single “addictive personality” that indicates whether or not someone will be diagnosed with a substance use...
by Dana Hinders | Feb 16, 2024 | Drug Addiction
The way the media portrays addiction has led many people to struggle to accurately identify the risk associated with a particular behavior. While the addictive nature of illegal street drugs is discussed fairly regularly, your medicine cabinet likely contains dangers...
by Dana Hinders | Aug 30, 2023 | Drug Addiction
Valium was immortalized by Rolling Stones in their 1966 song, “Mother’s Little Helper,” but this portrayal of the drug as a harmless way to deal with the ups and downs of everyday life couldn’t be further from the truth. Valium addiction can have...
