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Why Parent Training Helps in Kid and Teen Mental Health Recovery
If you have a child or a teen who is troubled and struggling, it’s easy to focus on them, their needs, and their diagnosis exclusively. After all, you have to manage their therapy appointments, make time to discuss treatment options with their team, and fill their prescriptions. Sometimes it can seem like your whole life…
Why Therapy Dogs Are Great for Kids with Mental Health Struggles
When we think of therapy, the first thing that usually comes to mind is talk therapy. With kids and teens, perhaps we think of art therapy or group therapy. How often do we think of animals? Actually, we should think of them more often. More and more evidence is coming in that emotional therapy dogs…
Xanax and Its Effect on Developing Brains
Xanax is a highly addictive drug typically used to treat anxiety. Its official name is Alprazolam, which falls under the class of Benzodiazepines. Because they have such a calming effect, drugs like this are easy to build a tolerance to and they’re highly addictive. Xanax is also dangerous because it is getting increasingly easy to…
Energy Drinks and the Road to Addiction
A new study found that adolescents and young adults that frequently consume energy drinks are at a higher risk for abusing alcohol, illicit drugs, and misusing prescription drugs. The study followed college students for 3 years and monitored their energy drink usage. By the end of the study, all participants were questioned about their substance…
How Much is Too Much?
We have all heard the saying “everything is good in moderation.” This can even be true of alcohol! But do you know when enough is enough? The first step is determining how risky your drinking pattern is. Low risk drinking for men is a maximum of 4 drinks a day, and a maximum of 14…
COVID Brain – Understanding the Effects of COVID Fog on Mental Health
COVID-19 changed our entire society seemingly overnight, resulting in a collective trauma psychologists believe will span for generations. Some call it COVID Brain. Blind optimism made us think government mandates would be lifted by June, and the little information we had about this unknown virus convinced us it was just the flu. With over 115…
What to do When Your Child is Doing Drugs
Isolation. Lack of communication. Withdrawal from friends and family. Personality changes. Physical changes. Dramatic mood changes. Not only are these side effects of growing up and going through puberty, they may also be signs your child may be doing drugs. Before you begin to panic and accuse your child of doing something they may not…
Hallucinogenic Drugs
A hallucinogen is described as a class of drug that produces distortions in perception a moderate dose. Users describe them as “mind expanding”, and often report a feeling of being transported to a new reality. They can be put in two categories: classic hallucinogens and dissociative drugs. Both can be man made or naturally grown.…
Gray Death
A lethal new drug called “gray death” is a toxic cocktail contributing to the opioid epidemic sweeping our nation. While it may sound like something created in a comic book villain’s laboratory, it is unfortunately very real and very scary. More powerful than heroin on its own, Gray Death is a compound of synthetic opioids,…