“People, Places, and Things” to Avoid During the Holidays
Families will be reuniting for the holidays soon. How will it be different after the Covoid pandemic? No longer isolated, how will this family time be different from last year? For the returning college student or the child leaving rehab, how will this visit play out? According to the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murphy,…
Read MoreThe Most Widely Available In-Your-Face Drug: Alcohol
Last October, a study released by University of Michigan researchers reported that nearly one in five Americans turned to “heavy drinking” to cope with the pandemic Covid-19. While the liquor business was declared “essential business,” and consequently could remain open during this time, the national list for people seeking liver transplants rose by 50%. Alcoholic…
Read MoreCDC Provisional Counts of 2021 Addiction Are Released Today, And They ARE Sobering!
The U.S. Covoid pandemic did a number on overdose deaths – 93,000 last year, to be exact, according to CDC figures released today on drug-related deaths occurring within the fifty states and Washington, D.C. during a twelve month period. On a daily basis, that works out to be 256 Americans per day. That statistic is…
Read MoreAlcohol IS A Drug!
The stress of the pandemic has more people turning to alcohol as a drug. According to William Scott Killgore, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine, “being under lockdown during a worldwide pandemic has been hard on everyone, and many people are relying on greater quantities of alcohol to ease…
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