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Depression is a horrible and debilitating disorder, but much like the saying that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and one woman wrote for Popsugar how going through depression made her a better person.  As Jen Porcelli writes, she describes depression as “climbing up treacherous mountains, hanging from a ledge grasping for dear life, …

What really causes a person to become  addicted to drugs or alcohol? Is the chemical strong enough to cause people to continuously crave more? If that were the case, how is it that many medical drug users do not become addicts? What is really driving the war on drugs? Have we been believing something for …

There’s a great deal of technology being used today that can help fight addiction, and now Pharmacy Times has written about digital pills that can make sure that patients get the right dosage, and it can also help fight addiction. According to this report, a company called EtectRx have invented a gel pill that has …

One of the biggest problems keeping people from seeking help for depression is the stigma attached to mental health issues. Now a group of people have gotten together for an event, The Depression Confessions, which RDNewsNow called, “a one-day consortium” that was streamed online for anyone who wanted to tune in.  One of the presenters …

ABC News has just run a story about a young woman from West Virginia, Hope Steele, who just made it to her 21st birthday, a milestone she wasn’t sure she’d make because she was suffering from heroin addiction. In Steele’s hometown of West Virginia, there is the highest drug overdose death rate in the United …

And there you are again, before going to sleep you just can’t stop yourself from grabbing your smartphone, refreshing the news feed of your Facebook page and checking out random news, photos and videos that will pop up. What is this information that you are putting in your head? Do you really need it? Your …