Substance Abuse and Recovery Blog

We often get questions about what the various credentials mean for drug and alcohol counselors. This is understandable - if you’re looking for drug and alcohol treatment, you likely want ...

An essential tool for recovery. Navigating addiction in the family is typically overwhelming on its own. Bringing the past or future into it creates even more anxiety and tension and ...

I get many questions this time of year about navigating the holiday season with an addicted loved one. This is understandable, being that this season can bring all the family ...

Obviously, the landscape of attitudes toward the use of marijuana has changed dramatically in recent years. One of the pieces of conventional wisdom in the drug world was always that ...

Many parents (and even grandparents) we work with assume that marijuana is the same as it ever was - weed is weed, right? Not so fast. If you assume that ...

It’s November! Let’s talk about gratitude. There is no better medicine to lift our spirits than a quick account of our blessings. What an incredibly powerful tool for changing our ...

As we’ve seen in our recent posts about marijuana-induced psychotic disorder, cannabinoid hyperemesis, and the physical effects of marijuana, it’s possible that recreational marijuana isn’t quite as harmless as we’ve ...

Please allow me to introduce myself: my name is Judy Engel and I recently completed my Ph.D. degree and a qualitative research study at The Pathway Program. The purpose of ...

I would like to share some of the most common questions I receive about relapse. I will answer them from an overview perspective and in a general sense. Relapse is ...

Marijuana’s health risks are hotly debated, and almost all sources point out that more research is needed to understand them fully. However, in addition to the documented mental health effects ...

With the proliferation of medical marijuana rolling into the movement for recreational marijuana, this seems to be one of the questions of the day – is marijuana addictive? As a ...

As drug and alcohol counselors, we often witness the effects of chronic marijuana use on young people in the form of cannabis or “weed” psychosis. It is unfortunate to see ...