September is National Recovery Month — an observance that educates and raises awareness for Americans. It demonstrates the fact that treatments and services for addictions and mental health can enable people to live happy and rewarding lives. The observance celebrates the gains made and goals achieved by those afflicted. Recovery Month helps spread the positive…
Collecting items can become an addiction — and Pokémon Go certainly feeds into this problem. Pokémon has been an original Nintendo title since the Game Boy, and now it has hit the smartphone platform. The app is a huge phenomenon and has practically taken over social media and major news outlets. So what’s so groundbreaking…
It’s a highly debated topic: are phones and tablets harmful to a child’s mental health? He is at the forefront of this subject and is advocating for parents to significantly cut their children’s screen time. One of the most interesting facts about addiction is that it isn’t limited to drugs and alcohol. Dr. Nicholas Kardaras…
In the early part of the 20th century, physicians prescribed heroin as a powerful pain reliever. In 1923, the US Treasury Department deemed heroin an illegal narcotic. Today, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classifies heroin as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no medical use and high abuse potential. Heroin by itself is harmful…
“Drug Abuse Epidemic” It’s a term we’ve heard touted by the media time and again, but it may be closer to reality than you think. Overdoses and deaths from drug abuse in New York are climbing at an incredibly alarming rate and traveling to new neighborhoods each day. To truly understand the magnitude of this…