Understanding Eating Disorders Anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating, and compulsive eating, these are all eating disorders that are seriously life threatening. The statistics about eating disorders are mind boggling. According to South Carolina Department of Mental Health, there are some seven million females and one million males that suffer from an eating disorder. Further, [...]

Preventing prescription drug abuse has to be addressed on more than one level. It has to be more than just getting rid of prescriptions that are lying around the house and not sharing medications with people that they are not prescribed for. Preventing prescription drug abuse effectively has to be through offering updated information for [...]

Benzodiazepine addiction is without a doubt, one of the most difficult addictions to detox and recover from. The dangers should never be taken lightly or underestimated. Detox from benzodiazepine addiction can be life threatening when they are stopped abruptly. Benzodiazepines include such drugs as Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Librium, Ativan, and Halcion. This list is by [...]

Why prescription drug treatment has to be different  Prescription drug abuse is at an all-time high which means that treating prescription drug addiction is more imperative than ever before. Teens are overdosing at shocking rates, more people are becoming involved in the legal system, and people are even dying from prescription drug abuse. The numbers [...]

A new study, soon to be published in the June issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, suggests that there is a long-reaching correlation between problems of irregular sleep in childhood and alcoholism and drug abuse in adulthood. Maria Wong, associate professor in the department of psychology at Idaho State University, conducted the survey. Dr. [...]