Digital storytelling using video blogs (vlogs), audio recordings, blogs, or interactive webpages has provided people with a wide range of creative methods for sharing their stories. Group therapy and other activities allow clients to share their recovery journey. They make a connection on an emotional level and can give hope, education and a feeling of belonging. People in recovery can share their experiences and the strategies that helped them beat addiction. This encourages others in the same situation, and helps […]
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSUDH) estimated that more than 21 million Americans (aged 12 and older) battled a substance misuse disorder in 2014. Though movies sometimes portray cocaine as a “rich man’s drug,” used by models and Wall Street execs, the drug’s effects are anything but glamorous. Powdered cocaine, along with its smokeable cousin, crack, work by directly interfering with the brain’s dopamine pathways, essentially making it impossible for the brain to turn dopamine signals off. […]