Addiction is a complicated disease. While an addiction happens as a result of your choices, quitting isn’t as simple as choosing not to be addicted to drugs and alcohol. You need more than willpower because the wiring of your brain changes your response to substances. It becomes harder to resist that drink, that joint, that...Read More

Encountering the things that trigger you to abuse substances can make staying clean and sober extremely challenging. Yet, by identifying substance abuse triggers, you can come up with strategies to avoid and cope with these triggers. Here’s a guide on how you can identify different triggers and develop a plan for preventing relapse. Need help...Read More

Did you know that roughly 20% of the Ohio population is enrolled in a Medicare program? That’s two and a half million people, and since approximately 10% of people will have a drug use disorder at some point in their lives, that means that roughly 250,000 people need an Ohio drug rehab that accepts Medicare....Read More

When a mental breakdown is aggravated by addiction, patients can benefit from specialized care from supportive, healing professionals from dual diagnosis treatment centers in Ohio. The symptoms of a mental breakdown may be frightening and distressing, prompting some people to abuse drugs and other substances in an attempt to escape the emotional and psychological suffering. Mental Breakdown...Read More

According to numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of the estimated 47,000 deaths from opioids in 2018, roughly two-thirds involved synthetic opioids, most frequently fentanyl. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid estimated to be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. As a result, it carries an extremely high...Read More