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By Katie McKendry, MS, LPC, CCS Clinical Director As more and more states move to legalize recreational marijuana, it’s important we talk about the impact this has on our developing youth. [...]

Daves’ Corner For someone that suffers from addiction, it can be difficult to experience life without jumping to extreme conclusions. Everything appears black or white. After years of drug [...]

Daves’ Corner One of my deepest struggles in early recovery was the belief in a Higher Power.  Prior to coming into Alcoholics Anonymous, I rarely found myself thinking of any God, let [...]

The origins of AA’s principles, and of the AA program itself, can be traced back to the Oxford Group, a Christian movement that had a following in Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s. [...]

“Scared Straight” Myths Can Do More Harm than Good for Your Loved One in Recovery There was a tragic story in USA TODAY in early October about a young woman who died at a detox center in Arizona. [...]

There are a lotof choices when it comes to seeking addiction treatment, and choosing the right one for your needs can be hard. After all, how much treatment does someone with addiction need, [...]

The world is a noisy place. Think about it: on any given day, you’re bombarded with the sound of honking cars, text alerts, ringing phones, TV commercials, background music at the local grocery [...]

Making Music In Recovery   Music is the universal language of mankind” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sparking the creative process without the use of drugs or alcohol is a very [...]

In 1999, there was no country on earth with a higher percentage of “hard” drug addicts than Portugal. A full one percent of its population had a drug abuse problem. If that number doesn’t sound [...]

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission“is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and [...]