The best way to prevent an addiction to a drug is not to take the drug at all. If your health care provider prescribes a drug with the potential for addiction, use care when taking the drug and follow instructions.... Read More

We follow a low-barrier housing-first clinically driven approach to guide clients towards health and safety. Transitional housing is temporary housing for the working homeless population and is set up to transition their residents to permanent housing. “Sometimes I feel so... Read More

In contrast, youth with limited drinking histories showed similar levels of activation while viewing the two beverage picture types. These results demonstrated pronounced alcohol cue reactivity in heavy drinking teens, particularly in reaction teenage alcoholism to alcohol advertising materials. Overall,... Read More

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism tells us alcohol shortened the lifespan of those 88,000 by 30 years. That makes alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. All other drugs combined cause approximately 30,000... Read More

However, currently there are no empirically supported RSS approaches or programs in which families are systematically recruited to serve as instrumental supports for ongoing youth-focused recovery activities. As seen in Figure 1, treatment engagement in youth behavioral services begins with... Read More