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Classified as one of the “designer drugs” on the street today, bath salt abuse has increased by 1000% from two years ago. Poison control centers in the U.S. have reported that in 2010, 304 [...]

Over the last 10 years, synthetic marijuana has hit our streets and its effects have been devastating. One doctor in particular has seen over 25 overdoses in the last three months alone.

So here you are, in a world full of wonder, beauty and a myriad of possibilities. You are breathing, barely, but you are breathing nonetheless. You’re crippled by your own fears and your own [...]

Clearbrook Treatment Centers believes that it is a part of the community it resides and operates in, and has a duty to help where it can. Today, Clearbrook made a monetary contribution to the [...]

Prescription drug abuse affects all age groups, but it is most common among young people. The most abused prescription drug types are painkillers (5.6 million abusers), tranquilizers (2.8 million [...]

Recent research and statistics on drug use show that in the United State alone, 52 million people over the age of 12 have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes in their lifetime. In [...]

Heroin use is an epidemic in this country, with use on the rise as prescription pills become more tightly controlled. Heroin produces a stronger effect that prescription pills and is 10 times [...]

We often hear people say that they not only had to stop using, but they also had to change everything. As addicts and alcoholics we have to start to construct new habits. What seem like small [...]

Alcohol rehabilitation is a process that involves medical or psychotherapeutic treatments for alcohol dependency. To state the obvious, recovery is a process (not an event). It involves a series [...]

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 [...]