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It’s easy for people who are not so familiar with substance abuse to assume that loved ones struggling with an active addiction can just one…
When an individual suffers from both a drug/alcohol addiction and a behavioral disorder concurrently, this is known as dual diagnosis.
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While it is known that the isolation of quarantine itself led to rises in depression and relapse due to environmental causes, there is a direct…
When someone thinks of an alcoholic they may imagine someone with messed up clothes, bad hair, no job, and maybe no place to live. This…
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