How Peer Recovery Support Helps Prevent Relapse
There is something that happens when a person in recovery sits across from someone who has been through it themselves. Not a clinician, not a counselo…
There is something that happens when a person in recovery sits across from someone who has been through it themselves. Not a clinician, not a counselo…
If you’ve ever noticed that your cravings feel more intense at certain points in the month, or that your mood and resilience in recovery seem to…
Few topics in addiction medicine are generating more attention right now than psilocybin — the naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in c…
It can arrive without warning. A smell, a song, a specific time of day, a stressful phone call — and suddenly the urge is there, vivid and insistent…
It sounds almost too simple. Breathe in. Breathe out. Deliberately, consciously, with intention and technique. And yet the emerging body of research a…
Recovery doesn’t follow a calendar. But relapse, as it turns out, has patterns — and summer is one of them.
For many people in recovery from a…
Summer in Maryland means backyard barbecues, Chesapeake Bay cookouts, graduation parties, Fourth of July celebrations, and wedding season — a near-c…
For a long time, the standard approach to treating addiction and mental health conditions was sequential — treat one first, then address the other. …
There are moments when the decision to get help arrives with a kind of urgency that doesn’t allow for waiting. A crisis point. A conversation th…
If you or someone you love is struggling with opioid use disorder, you may have heard about Suboxone — a medication that has changed the landscape o…