Dual Diagnosis: What is the Relationship Between Substance Abuse and Mental Illness?
What is a dual diagnosis? This is when someone is diagnosed with a mental health disorder while also dealing with an addiction or substance abuse problem. We often recognize depression or anxiety as illnesses, thus a diagnosis. However, struggles with drugs or alcohol count as a diagnosis as well: substance abuse disorder. This is because […]
Light Up My Life
Brad Lamm, CIP On each pack of cigarettes, the warning states, in all caps, “˜smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and may complicate pregnancy.’ Yet for many years, I’d light up my favorite fix with barely a glance at those words. While in recovery from crystal meth and my bout with bulimia, I kept […]
BREEDING ADDICTION: Moms, Babies + Opiates Arrive Pre-Loaded
by Brad Lamm, CIP The news is in on pregnant moms and addictive pain killers. It ain’t good. According to data revealed in a recent New York Times article, more than 1 in 5 pregnant mothers are being prescribed opioid painkillers by doctors. The primary symptom breeding opiate use for pregnant women is not a […]
