Are Mental Illness and Substance Use Related?
What Is Co-Occurring Disorder and Why Does It Matter? When a person lives with both a mental health condition and a substance use disorder at the same time, clinicians refer…
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Is Alcohol a Drug?
To answer the question “is alcohol a drug?” we first have to define what a drug is. A drug is any substance that has physiological effects on the body. By…
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Addiction Definition
What Is Addiction? Addiction is a chronic brain disease characterized by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), addiction changes the structure…
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Getting to the Basics of Gestalt Therapy
What Is Gestalt Therapy? Developed in the 1940s by Frederick “Fritz” Perls and collaborators Laura Perls and Paul Goodman as an alternative to conventional psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy has been used…
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Even Olympic Athletes Suffer Depression
Why Depression Doesn’t Discriminate Allison Schmitt’s willingness to speak publicly about her experience with depression helped shift a long-standing cultural assumption: that high performance and mental health struggles cannot coexist.…
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Keep The Winter Blues At Bay
It’s hard to be upbeat in winter when days are short, cold, and overcast. Sometimes you just want to stay in your pajamas and avoid going out. In such cases,…
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Increasing Evidence Of Brain Harm From Marijuana Use
Although there are already many known ways in which marijuana harms the well-being and health of a young adult, new research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)…
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The Many Approaches Taken By Clinically Dynamic Treatment
What Makes a Treatment Program Truly Clinically Dynamic? Clinically dynamic treatment is not a single method. It is a framework that draws from multiple evidence-based disciplines and adapts to the…
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Stages Of Effective Young Adult Addiction Treatment Intervention
Why Intervention Stages Matter for Young Adult Addiction Helping a young adult recognize the need for treatment is rarely a single conversation. Research from SAMHSA consistently shows that structured, staged…
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How Adventure Therapy Can Help Young Adults Recover From Addiction
What Is Adventure Therapy, and How Does It Work? Adventure therapy is a structured, evidence-informed approach to psychotherapy that uses outdoor activities and experiential challenges as therapeutic tools. Unlike traditional…
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