
DEA's Pain Pill Database Highlights Need for Addiction Treatment
The release of otherwise confidential information has surfaced from the DEA. This long standing agency promoting and enforcing a drug free society has compiled pain pill statistics from 2006 to 2012. With this information now in the hands of…

4 Steps to Discovering How Much Your Insurance covers
If you've decided to enter a treatment center, you need to understand what type of addiction coverage your insurance provides. Learn how to find out.

As a Loved One, Where Can I Get Help?
Often, addiction is looked upon as a personal disease: it only affects the person taking the drugs and consuming the alcohol. Families strive to find their loved ones help through different avenues such as rehab or special meetings like Alcoholics…

Suicide Rate and Substance Abuse
Suicide is a word that strikes fear into the hearts of those who love someone with a substance abuse disorder. The thought that your loved one could harm themselves to the point of death is excruciating. There is no measure for the impact substance…

How Widespread is the Opioid Epidemic?
You've heard it here, there, and everywhere. "The Opioid Epidemic" or the "prescription drug problem in America". What makes it so intense that people are using the word epidemic? Is it really that widespread?
That deadly? Unfortunately,…