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Building Connections: Understanding How Addiction Affects The Hispanic Community
While Water By The Spoonful represents a diverse selection of characters, many of whom are in recovery from addiction and all of whom are facing unique challenges related…
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Building A Life Worth Staying Sober For: A Recovery Story
From Kass’s relatively conventional Southeast Iowa childhood, few would probably be able to guess that a sixteen year battle with addiction to multiple substances would be in the…
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Building Connections: The Tangled History Of Crack Cocaine
Today’s headlines are ever-plagued by references to America’s unresolved opioid epidemic, the tangled history of which I’ve addressed in a few of my past posts, including a few…
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Could Magic Mushrooms Be A Hidden Answer To Addiction?
Though the idea of treating addiction with another drug that has been known as a drug of abuse may seem a little counterintuitive, the drug psilocybin, a compound…
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Building Connections: How Broward County Became America's Opioid Epicenter
This post is part of a series exploring issues of addiction in our community developed with local theatre company New City Players in conjunction with their upcoming production…
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Season 2 of "Euphoria" Sheds Light On Rue’s Addiction
It may not be an exaggeration to say that everyone’s been talking about Euphoria. Since the hit show first premiered in 2019, it has grown in popularity to…
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The Effects of Long-Term Xanax Use
Xanax is a drug from the benzodiazepine class often used to treat anxiety disorders, panic attacks, and other related mental health issues. Taking Xanax works to increase the…
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Ohio State Football Player Harry Miller Movingly Shares His Mental Health Journey
Mental health once again made the news recently when Harry Miller, a promising college football player from Ohio State, announced that he was medically retiring from the game…
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7 Reasons To Seek Addiction Treatment
Substance use disorder, which is more colloquially known as drug addiction, is a serious mental health condition characterized by compulsive drug use despite negative consequences. Though it is…
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