Our Latest Blogs on Addiction & Recovery Topics

6 Balloons is a new Movie available for streaming from Netflix that has gotten strong reviews for its hard look at addiction. The title is a reference to heroin, and Variety writes that the film is “by turns intensely naturalistic and brutally stylized,” and that it “mercilessly turns screws and escalates dread while spinning a …

Blackjack, poker, roulette, slot machines, the list can go on and on. There are numerous exciting, adrenaline-bursting gambling options out there. You think to yourself that today is your lucky day and dive deep into the world of cards, dices, and numbers. Unfortunately, usually there are much more unlucky days than the lucky ones, and …

If you’re suffering from depression, you’re certainly not alone, and even major A-list action stars like The Rock have had to fight the blues. The Rock not only had to endure trauma as a 15-year-old but also as a young man when he tried to get his football career together.    As The Rock, aka …

Glenn Close has become an advocate for mental health in recent years because she has a mental illness in her family. Not only has she diagnosed with depression herself, but she has a sister who is bipolar and a cousin with schizoaffective disorder as well.  Close told Moneyish that having depression makes her “much more empathetic and …

One of the most important tools in the fight against anxiety and depression is exercise. And it’s important to be consistent as possible with exercise, or it can be detrimental to your mental health.  As the Independent reports, a study by the University of Adelaide found that if you stop “all forms of vigorous physical activity,” it can cause …

Vaping is the new “cool thing” today. Considered a healthy alternative to smoking, it is gaining popularity among teenagers. However, is it as harmless as most believe it to be?   According to a study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco this is not the case. The urine samples which were collected from teenagers …