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Building Connections: Understanding How Addiction Affects The Hispanic Community
TreatmentMay 1st, 2022

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
RecoveryApril 22nd, 2022

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
AddictionApril 22nd, 2022

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?
TreatmentApril 14th, 2022

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
AddictionApril 13th, 2022

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
TreatmentApril 7th, 2022

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
Mental HealthMarch 31st, 2022

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
TreatmentMarch 25th, 2022

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
TreatmentMarch 21st, 2022

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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