How Treatment is Different for Women 

Strangely, despite the fact that it's been established for quite some time that there are differences when it comes to treating men and women for addiction and that women from all-female recovery treatment groups relapse less often than women in mixed groups, rehabs have been slow to implement gender-specific treatment.The role hormones play in addiction recovery has been drastically underrated.

When Chronic Pain, Addiction and Mental Health Intersect 

The challenge for care providers, as they respond to the national crisis and address the dilemma of people is to more accurately apprehend the interplay of pain, opioids, mental health and addiction. And to help their patients do the same. 

How Tobacco Changes the Body 

Ann informational website from the Cancer Society of Finland - very interesting way to show the effects of smoking on your body, inside and out, and available in multiple languages too.   

Predictors Of Substance Abuse Identified Among Teens With Bipolar Disorder 

A study published in the issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that approximately one in three teens with bipolar disorder developed substance abuse, for the first time, during 4 years of follow-up. The study also identified several risk factors that predicted who among these teens was most likely to develop substance abuse.

A Complex Response to an Epidemic

The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic. Deaths from drug overdose, driven by the increase in prescription opioid abuse, now outnumber those caused by car accidents. As a result, the opioid epidemic-and the opioid addict-demands a unique, specific, evidence-based solution, one that gives the individual the best chance at long-term recovery.