Addiction Recovery Blog
Processing Traumatic Events
How To Recover From A Traumatic Event Along with the arrival of spring, we’re seeing some COVID-19 restrictions being relaxed. Unfortunately, there’s been an increase in gun violence, too, particularly mass shootings, in recent weeks. Case(s) in point: Atlanta;...
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day: Binge Drinking Is One Tradition Best Left in the Past St. Patrick’s Day brings to mind leprechauns, clover, pots of gold, and Irish heritage. It’s also a day besieged by binge drinking. It is, in fact, the fourth tipsiest drinking holiday, in...
Frustration and Addiction
Frustration And Addiction When researchers study drug addiction and what drives it, they often focus on a trio of factors: cravings, impulsivity, and habit. A new study suggests that a fourth factor — frustration — is a driving force in many substance use disorders....
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
Teen Dating Violence: Awareness is Key to Prevention Teens can be insular about their own experiences, trying to figure out who they are as they cross from childhood into adulthood, juggling school, friendships, and dating along the way. They don’t have the...
Mobile Addiction Clinics
Mobile Addiction Clinics Offer Rehab Help on the Go Several RVs are hitting the roads of rural northeastern Colorado. They’re not manned by retirees skipping from state to state or food trucks serving roadside tacos. Instead, they’re 34-foot-long motorhomes delivering...
Black History Month
COVID-19 Reveals Racial Inequalities Still Exist in Healthcare February is Black History Month, and on one hand it’s a time to celebrate Black history, culture, and heritage, but it’s also a good time to look at issues that still trouble the Black community. One...
Birth defects prevention
Can Alcohol Cause Birth Defects? January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month, an effort to help families plan healthy pregnancies and have healthy babies. An estimated one of every 33 U.S. infants is born with a birth defect. While there are few guarantees in...
Human Trafficking Month
Human Trafficking and Substance Use Disorder No Strangers to One Another Substance use disorder is no stranger to the world of human trafficking. Casting aside controversies about hashtag campaigns, it remains a problem worldwide as well as in all 50 states,...
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Lives On Martin Luther King Jr. called out for justice and equality, most famously on Aug. 28, 1963, when he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. He spoke during the centennial year of the Emancipation...
National Religious Freedom Day
Religious Freedom Day Means Equality, Respect for All Faiths The majority of Coloradoans are Christian -- 64%, with more than half either Evangelical or mainline Protestant, or Catholic. That’s followed by the unaffiliated (the “nones”) at 29%. The rest are...