The American Journal of Public Health recently published an article documenting the increased use of benzos among adults. Overdoses rose sharply for those whose ages fell between 44-65.

Rehab is an important tool in the recovery process. Addiction cannot be cured. Rehab is just the beginning and sobriety is an ongoing process. There’s a reason that twelve step programs have such good reputations.

With the recent hype about the current opioid crisis, it easy to forget about all of the other substances people abuse on a daily basis. Although it is very difficult and uncomfortable to detox from heroin and pain killers, it is not fatal. That is not the case for some [...]

Recently one of the largest heroin seizures in the country occurred in Queens, New York. Reports state that two men from Guatemala were found to be in possession of 48 kilograms of heroin in the beds of their pickup trucks. That equates to roughly $14 million of this [...]

Relapse, in a broad sense of the word, is defined as “falling back into a former state, or returning to an active phase of a disease after a partial recovery.” Maybe the biggest key to this definition is the part that says "partial recovery."

Alcohol is as serious as any drug that is out there on the streets or in our pharmacies. Alcohol still remains the most highly abused drugs in the United States today. Many family members, friends, employers, and the alcoholic themselves should look out for some of the [...]

We all have to work. Getting a job when you are first getting sober, or even years into sobriety, can be tricky in regards to what to tell your prospective new employer, what they can ask you, and what your rights are.

Clearbrook Treatment Centers’ CEO, Dr. Nicholas Colangelo, offered his assistance and support to a drug and alcohol facility in Palm Beach County, Florida. One of the county’s oldest treatment providers, CARP’s (Comprehensive Alcoholism Rebabilitation Programs, Inc.) [...]

President Obama and recording artist, Macklemore, met to discuss addiction and the toll it is taking on our nation. Macklemore, who is famously known for his song “Thrift Shop”, has battled his own personal addiction and has suffered the loss of friends to prescription [...]

With the recent rise in overdose deaths, some state lawmakers are considering a new approach to the heroin epidemic. What seems almost inconceivable to those of us who have experienced the gift of sobriety, a new-age “heroin-den” or “shooting gallery” is actually being [...]