Heroin is usually stamped with a name on the bag. This particular mix of poison is stamped and being called “Egg Nog”. Numerous people have overdosed and died over the last ten days as a direct result of using this particular batch.

The city of Seattle is planning on launching what is become a very controversial subject. The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance is planning on opening places that heroin addicts can go and “safely inject heroin.” This is not a form of treatment. This is purely harm [...]

Heroin...The epidemic sweeping across our nation. This past weekend in Chicago there were 75 overdoses from heroin use. This was just one weekend, in one city in America. This is going on everywhere across our country. Clearbrook has been battling this heroin [...]

The 4th of July and recovery from addiction share the same ideals. When we are in active addiction we are slaves; dependent and held captive by drugs and alcohol. Addiction keeps us trapped in a self-perpetuating state of being restless, irritable, and discontent. Once [...]

In the drug and alcohol treatment field we often hear the word “detox”. Detox, simply put, is the medical removal of toxic substances from the body. Without proper medical help from a facility like Clearbrook, detox can be life threatening, uneasy, and uncomfortable; [...]

Designed for the patients as a therapeutic tool during treatment, the garden will be filled with plants and flowers that are native to the area. While in treatment, our patients sit in a lot of groups and lectures working on themselves and developing coping skills for [...]

The growing epidemic of bath salt usage is exploding into view in Northeastern Pennsylvania according to a March 20th front-page story in the Sunday Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. Kudos to the State Legislators in Hawaii, Michigan, Louisiana, Kentucky, North Dakota and [...]

Here are the steps most take through AA, which are suggested as a program of recovery: 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. [...]

The most common method for using marijuana is to place the dried leaves, stems, and flowers of this plant onto rolling paper and make it into a cigarette, to be smoked. It can also be smoked in a waterpipe or “bong”, or other metal or glass pipe. This drug [...]

Effects of Use Marijuana users claim that using the drug gives them these effects, which last for two or three hours after the drug is ingested: Ease in social situations Euphoria Feeling of relaxation Sexual arousal Complications and Long-Term Effects of Marijuana [...]