Meditation and mindfulness in rehab A growing body of studies supports that meditating can help with the recovery of addiction. It can, in fact, change our brains. One of the most groundbreaking studies, by Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Sara Lazar in 2005, examined how regular mindfulness…
In the 21st Century, there are such things as medical tourism. From there, there are also other forms of medical tourism like surgery tourism, dental tourism, and rehab tourism. The idea behind them is straightforward. If you can’t afford to get surgery or a medical…
Heroin is an illicit drug made from morphine, which is a natural substance that’s taken from opium poppy plants. While certain opiates are prescribed legally as painkillers and typically called opioids, the federal government classified heroin as a Schedule I narcotic lacking any legal use…
Opioids are a range of drugs or medications that include synthetic and semi-synthetic medicine made from opiate alkaloid derived from the opium poppy. Several of the most commonly prescribed opioid medicine such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Lortab, and Percocet, are used for managing acute pain. Opioids…
When you use prescription medication recreationally or not in a way that’s prescribed by the prescribing doctor, then you’re abusing prescription medication. What’s more, problematic usage includes everything from snorting or injecting ground-up pills for the sake of getting high to stealing a friend’s prescription…
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