Operation Clean Recovery

Addiction Recovery through Healing my God-Sized Ho...

I beamed with excitement as my debit card chopped up the orange pill. My pupils enlarged and the world around me slowed down as the fragments went up my nose and made their way into my system. The effect of ecstasy was sudden. My body tingled and my cheeks widened…

Women, Drug Addiction and Co-Occurring Disorders

Women report a lower rate of addiction than men, but they still experience more severe addictions at a faster rate, all due to their biology. Women are more likely to use different drugs, use them for different reasons and experience different consequences than male counterparts. Plus, more women are…

How Can Treating PTSD Help Your Addiction?

If you are struggling with a substance abuse issue, there can be a deeper rooted issue that is keeping you stuck in your addiction. More often than not, people who abusing drugs and alcohol are also struggling with a co-occurring mental disorder. If you happen to have a co-occurring disorder–which is…

Opioid Prescribing for Teens Exceeded CDC 2016 Gui...

Between 2005 and 2016, opioid prescriptions for adolescents generally were written for longer than three days, and the number of prescriptions filled for four and five day supplies increased, according to a report in Psychiatric Services in Advance. These trends occurred prior to the issuance of guidelines for opioid prescribing by…

How to Let Go of the Past in 5 Steps

Are you ready to let go of the past? If you are anything like me then you are thinking, hell yes. I am ready to move on with my life. I want to forget it all. Yet, you can’t. It is so hard to forget, to forgive, to let it…