Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Inhalant Use Can Be Deadly
As bad as drug and alcohol abuse are, we don’t have to talk with students about it until they’re in high school or maybe late middle school, right? Sadly, this statement isn’t true. In fact, large numbers of young children abuse drugs and alcohol and pay the...
Drug Addiction Can Cause Homelessness
As you probably know, drug addiction isn't just one problem, it's many. Abusing drugs often leads to many problems both for abusers and others in their lives. After all, if drug abusers spend all their time locating and using drugs, there's a good chance that they're...
Marijuana’s Substance Use Disorder Potential Real but Exaggerated
Most likely you don’t read the journal Addiction, so if you read an article referencing it, you can’t just pull out your copy to check that the article has referenced to it accurately. You take the article at face value. Reading an online discussion of marijuana...
Marijuana May Be More Likely to Treat than Cause Substance Use Disorder
Ever since President Donald Trump was elected, cannabis advocates, law enforcement, state legislatures and governor’s mansions have all been wondering what he would do about state laws legalizing medical marijuana and recreational marijuana. On the one hand, as a...
Overcoming the Obstacles of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
It’s Wednesday! You know what that means—it’s hump day! That means for many people, it’s the middle of the five-day workweek. Once the workday on Wednesday ends, we’ve gotten past the hump of the workweek and are more quickly approaching the weekend of Friday,...
Do Your Research before Entering Treatment
Rehab is rehab, right? Not necessarily. As with other things in life, it pays to research rehab centers and programs before you or a loved one attends one. This is especially true if you’re traveling to receive treatment for drug or alcohol abuse. We hear more and...
Drug Addiction Is Not a Choice
“Drug addicts are drug addicts and alcoholics are alcoholics because of the choices they make. They’ve created sad situations, to be sure, but the situations exist solely because of choices they’ve made, choices that have hurt them.” You sometimes hear people make...
Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment in Jeopardy with Healthcare Bill in Limbo
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often rendered as ACA or “Obamacare” (like the term “muckraker” for investigative journalist,” it was originally intended as an insult, but was embraced by the subject) was much disliked by many people under that name....
Is Substance Use Disorder a Disease?
(Image from Pixabay) Does what you call something affect how you perceive or treat it? Almost certainly. Politicians and activists have long known this. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the language Newspeak is designed to limit thought, and government...
Advocating Treatment, Not Punishment
In the war against drug addiction, a growing number of people are advocating treatment instead of punishment. One of the latest is Michigan attorney general Bill Schuette. According to Schuette, drug overdoses killed 1,981 Michigan residents in 2015, more than twice...