September 12, 2017 - Have you ever felt no one understands what you are experiencing? Maybe you have felt isolated or alone even though multiple people surround you every day. Chances are you either live with or work with someone who is constantly battling these emotional struggles. It can feel like a lonely journey being diagnosed with a mental health and/or substance use disorder. You can help by letting your family members and others in the community know you are with them.
National Prevention Week: May 15-21 Marks the Annual National Prevention Week.
May 5, 2017 - National Prevention Week is an annual health observance dedicated to increasing public awareness of, and action around, substance abuse and mental health issues.
There are three primary goals of National Prevention Week:
April 12, 2017 - When you’re younger and your parents needed to have a serious conversation, they would call you in and ask that you have a seat. This meant that the topic was serious and required our full attention.
February 3, 2017 - Let’s take a stroll down “Memory Lane” to the years that many of us lived free and without bills to pay or worries. We dreaded waking up early for school but looked forward to innocent Friday night football games where we cheered our hearts out and bragged about our latest hallway crush. The internet as we know it today was just a twinkle in someone’s eye and cell phones weren’t permanent appendages.
April 25, 2016 - In the 1980s a potato chip company used the catchy slogan “Bet you can’t eat just one.” The idea was that after you enjoy your first chip, you’ll want to eat more and more to satisfy your hunger. As most of us have come to realize, even a handful of chips just aren’t enough to satisfy us when we are hungry. Even when we get to the bottom of the bag we turn the bag upside down because we want to get every last crumb. This is fairly similar to how drugs affect many people.
