On April 10th, 2018 Dr. Matthew Bruhin was honored as a recipient of San Diego’s Citizen of Courage Award for 2018. The award was presented…
The National Center for Health Statistics reported that in 2016 more than 15,000 deaths in the United States were caused by heroin, which is a…
The young man sat down on my couch. He was twenty and already showed the telltale signs of heroin use. His eyes were myopic, meaning…
Many American families find themselves dealing with what seems like an unstoppable force for destruction. Addiction plagues many families and significant others on a daily…
If you or someone you know has been abusing alcohol, at some point you may decide that it’s time to stop. Alcoholism can have severe…
A number of states recently made the decision to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Today, it is legal to use and possess a small amount…
Rather than deal with a problem, it is best for the problem never to arise in the first place. Few would argue with this simple…
Drug addiction is a disease that requires an individual to take an ever-increasing amount of a substance to achieve the same high. Overdose prevention begins…
We may live in a digital paperless age, but the power of books still proves strong. People read more nowadays because of social media and…
You can become addicted to just about anything. You can be addicted to something good, like exercising, something neither good nor bad, like video games,…