Approximately 25% of 13- to 18-year-olds have an anxiety disorder. Just under 6% have a severe anxiety disorder. Anxiety. Sometimes I feel like this word gets thrown around quite a bit because Read More …

Let me tell you about my high school experience and bullying…                   This is me in high school, circa 2003 or 2004. That means I was a freshman or sophomore at the Read More …

Part of the appeal of this internship was having an opportunity to learn more about addiction, and how to help and educate people. My sister is a drug addict, and has been for the better part of nearly two decades. Read More …

Sometimes it seems like there isn’t a day that goes by without the news of an overdose. That someone has lost their battle with addiction or has lost their battle with a mental health issue. Add that to the overwhelming Read More …

Demi Lovato released the song ‘Sober’ at the end of June, a confession to relapsing after six years of sobriety. And by the end of July, she had been hospitalized for an apparent drug overdose. For some, it was quite Read More …

                  It was in 2016 that Google searches for the term “self-care” skyrocketed, and understandably so. Politics were stressing us all out. There were arguments, a lot of anxiety…it was exhausting. And Read More …

                Remember that iconic television commercial that started airing in 1980s from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America where the guy holds up an egg, and says, “This is your brain.” Then the Read More …

Henry Ford. The Hewletts. The Packards. The Johnsons. Alexander Graham Bell. Milton S. Hershey. When you hear those names, we can automatically picture the product they created. But what product do you associate with the name Sackler? You might remember Read More …

                It is important to discuss and address both mental health and addiction together, because having a mental illness makes it more common to also suffer from a substance use disorder at the Read More …

“Addiction kills more than 115 Americans a day.” – USA Today “Nearly 64,000 opioid overdose deaths were recorded in the United States in 2016, the highest number recorded in a single year.” – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December Read More …