How do you celebrate National Recovery Month every September? The government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) leads the way to recognizing the hard work that goes into recovery for each person in rehab, each professional treatment counselor, and each affected family member. Whether you’re striving for sobriety in smaller communities such as Benicia or larger ...
Heroin Addiction Recovery: You Can Forget About Relapse
Imagine that you’re working on heroin addiction recovery—and you suddenly stop struggling with triggers. You simply don’t have them anymore. It’s because you’ve forgotten about all your past occasions of using heroin. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? This speculation has been prompted by research published in August 2015 in Molecular Psychiatry, a medical journal, detailing the research performed by ...
Update: Ross William Ulbricht Arrested
Heroin users following the case of Ross William Ulbricht are not alone in discovering that this true story is much stranger than fiction. In fact, you can’t make up a tale like Ulbricht’s, who was arrested for selling heroin in Oakland in October 2013. Hiding behind the Internet on a secret website called Silk Road, Ulbricht masterminded drug sales wherever he could poke his modem, including ...
