Every September, treatment programs, recovery community organizations, faith groups and families across the country mark National Recovery Month. If you’ve seen the community walks, the local proclamations or the hashtag campaigns and wondered what they’re actually for, the short answer is that Recovery Month exists to make recovery visible. That matters more than it might […]
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Street heroin is almost never sold in pure form. By the time it reaches a person who uses it, it has typically passed through many hands. At any point, someone may have “cut” it by mixing in other substances to stretch the supply and increase profit. Historically, those additives were often relatively inert fillers. Today,
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At first glance, alcohol and Adderall might seem like they cancel each other out. One is a stimulant that sharpens focus and energy, while the other is a depressant that slows you down. In reality, combining them is far riskier than it feels, because they pull the body in opposite directions. Adderall is one of
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Cocaine is a fast-acting stimulant — the high can fade within half an hour — but the question of how long it stays in your body has a more complicated answer. While cocaine itself clears the bloodstream within hours, the byproducts your body creates as it breaks the drug down linger far longer, and those
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Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, and for most people, morning coffee or afternoon tea is a harmless part of the day. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), up to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day — about two to three 12-ounce cups of coffee — isn’t generally
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Xanax is one of the most widely prescribed medications in the country, which can make misuse easy to overlook. It often starts with a legitimate prescription before quietly turning into something harder to control. According to the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 4.6 million Americans aged 12 and older misused prescription
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The opioid epidemic has touched every corner of the country, but it has never hit evenly. Some states have lost residents to overdose at rates many times higher than others. There is, at last, some encouraging news: in 2023, U.S. overdose deaths fell for the first time since 2018, and they dropped far more sharply
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For many people living with post-traumatic stress disorder, substances become a way to quiet the symptoms — and over time, that substance use can become its own problem. PTSD is more common than many people realize. According to the VA National Center for PTSD, about 6% of U.S. adults will experience PTSD at some point
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When you’re overwhelmed, picking up the phone can feel like too much. The Crisis Text Line exists for exactly those moments: it lets you reach free, confidential support by text, any time of day or night, simply by texting HOME to 741741. Crisis isn’t rare, either. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 49,316
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The U.S. overdose crisis is national in scope but profoundly uneven in impact. The state where you live shapes your risk in measurable ways — through the drug supply, treatment availability, health care access, economic conditions and policy environment. Some states have overdose death rates nine times higher than others. This article presents the most
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