Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Did Lil Wayne Abuse Codeine and Lean?
In early September 2017, rapper Lil Wayne was hospitalized after he suffered two seizures and fell unconscious in a hotel room in Chicago. He was released a few days later. This hasn’t been the first time Lil Wayne experienced seizures and has been hospitalized. He...
September 11, PTSD, and Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, a date when terrorists hijacked two planes and crashed them into New York City’s World Trade Center and another plane into Washington, DC’s Pentagon. Terrorists hijacked another plane bound for the...
Forcing Pregnant Women into Substance Use Disorder Treatment Can Have Unintended Consequences
(Photo Wikimedia commons) Civil rights and public order – the right of the people as a whole to be safe from harm and the right of the individual to be free from intrusive government – are often in conflict. Take the homeless. Some proportion of them are mentally ill,...
Trump Proclaims National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
On Aug. 31, President Trump proclaimed that September 2017 is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. To that end, he wants: To “emphasize to all those suffering that recovery is possible.” To “remember those who have bravely conquered their addiction.” To...
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Relapses in Recovery
All week, we’ve been talking about the work needed to maintain sobriety and to help fix or prevent relapses. For many people in sobriety, relapse is a dirty word. Maybe that’s why many people don’t seem to want to discuss it. But as with other problems, discussing...
There Are No Vacations from Recovery
In yesterday’s blog post, we discussed work, recovery, and Labor Day. So, it only seems fitting that we should talk about the opposite of work for today’s post. We should talk about vacations. Of course, just because people take time from work to go on vacations...
Ongoing Recovery Requires Ongoing Work
Today, Monday, September 4, 2017, is Labor Day in the United States and Canada, a holiday when we celebrate workers of the past and the present. Funnily enough, to commemorate this celebration of labor, many workplaces shut down and give their employees a vacation...
Psychoactive Drugs Show Promise for Dual Diagnosis, PTSD Treatment
One of the most common and least known forms of addiction (to the general public; don’t trust an addiction specialist who hasn’t heard of it) is dual diagnosis, also known as co-morbid and co-occurring disorders, where a patient has both an addiction and a...
Worse Substance Use Disorder Problems than Marijuana
We’re in the midst of an opioid epidemic, with insufficient funds and treatment facilities for the addicted to seek help. The president has declared it a national emergency. So naturally it’s time to crackdown on marijuana. At least that seems to be the intent of...
How to Prevent Deadly Drug Interactions
Dangerous drugs are not just drugs you might buy in the street or at a club, like heroin or MDMA (ecstasy). Today, far more people could face drug problems because of drugs they can find in their medicine cabinets. These drugs are prescription drugs and...