You might be surprised to learn that when you take the first step towards sobriety and reach out to a recovery center, the next step [...]

People are given painkillers for a number of reasons – perhaps they suffer from chronic pain; maybe they are recovering from extensive surgery. Whatever the [...]

Medical doctors can prescribe painkillers for a number of reasons including mild to severe chronic pain and post-surgical pain management. However this common usage of [...]

How often have you popped another Advil after the first one didn’t work well enough to take your headache away?  Now, imagine if each Advil [...]

Following surgery, after a serious injury or in response to a diagnosis of chronic pain, doctors may prescribe painkiller medication to their patient(s). While this [...]

Addiction is a complex, multifaceted issue that looks a little different for everyone. For veterans, military trauma often plays a large role in the development [...]

Statistics show that veterans have a higher rate of developing a substance use disorder than the general population, as men and women in the military [...]

Once you’ve made it through each phase of your recovery journey from detox to various forms of therapy to follow, you have hit the “home [...]

So you’re in the final stretch of the treatment process, wrapping up your methadone treatment and getting ready to step into the aftercare phase. Then [...]

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s similar to morphine, but over 50 times stronger.  It can be pharmaceutically or illicitly manufactured and is extremely addictive [...]

A study from the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows that quitting a substance cold turkey is not always the most effective route to achieving [...]

Substance use and misuse are all too common, and their effects are severe. Here’s what you need to know about these terms, why language matters [...]