Category: Sober Living

  • Oxycodone in the Opioid Epidemic: High Liking, Wanting, and Abuse Liability PMC

    One of the paramedics administered NARCAN nasal spray, which is designed to reverse an opioid overdose. When that didn’t work, he injected Cochran with another narcotic blocker. Cochran said he took a few pills with him to Georgia, knowing he’d be sick from withdrawal symptoms. When the university shut down its campus and moved classes…

  • Relapse Prevention Plan: Strategies and Techniques for Addiction

    However, this does not mean that a person cannot recover from SUD or AUD. With a healthcare professional’s guidance, someone may be able to resume their treatment plan, modify it slightly, or try a different treatment plan that works better for them. Learn more about addiction, its stages, and discover the best treatment options with…

  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

    And other disorders, such as ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and Williams syndrome, have some symptoms like FAS. If your child is diagnosed with an FASD, the diagnosis will be for a specific condition under the umbrella of FASDs, as listed above. Tony Loneman, a character in Tommy Orange’s 2018 novel There There, was born with fetal…

  • GLOBAL NEWS: Busting myths on alcohol and COVID-19

    Therefore, consumption should be moderate in general, and especially during the pandemic [24]. In contrast, Nielsen IQ reported [25] a 477 % increase in online alcohol sales by end of April 2020. Social stressors include social isolation, unemployment, frontline work such as in a hospital, working from home, management of children’s schooling, as well as…