As the country continues to battle the opioid crisis, we’re also contending with another, slower moving epidemic: alcohol. While opioid overdoses are...
by Rodrigo Almeida / November 28 / Comments Off on Alcohol Deadlier Than Opioids
Florida by The Numbers: Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue Deployed Narcan 1,200 Times In 2016 14 Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids Everyday As of...
by Janina Kowalski / July 19 / 0 comments
With people across the country succumbing to an opioid use disorder, it is easy to become despondent. After all, upwards of a...
by Janina Kowalski / June 29 / 0 comments
If you were to evaluate most of the individuals that seek treatment for addiction, you would find that most of them have...
by Janina Kowalski / June 17 / 0 comments
Smartphones are ubiquitous. We cannot go anywhere without them, seemingly. Everyone from teenagers to seniors relies on their smartphones to get from...
by Janina Kowalski / May 25 / 0 comments
In the field of addiction treatment, it is quite common for those seeking help to have experienced trauma in some form or...
by Janina Kowalski / May 12 / 0 commentsNot everyone who seeks help for a substance abuse or mental health issue has the luxury of being able to go to...
by Janina Kowalski / April 27 / 0 commentsChemical dependency is a form of mental illness that unfortunately cannot be cured, but can be successfully treated and arrested. A person...
by Janina Kowalski / April 11 / 0 comments[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="219"] Click image to enlarge[/caption] Feeling scared, anxious and powerless... "Help, what do we do? How do we...
by Janina Kowalski / March 15 / 0 commentsIn November 2016, Florida became one of 28 states (including the District of Columbia) to legalize medical marijuana. While each state has...
by Janina Kowalski / March 9 / 0 commentsAddiction is a family disease. A simple statement that can have different meanings depending on who you ask. On the one hand,...
by Janina Kowalski / February 24 / 0 commentsA few weeks ago we were pleased to report the annual Monitoring the Future survey showed a dramatic reduction in teenage prescription...
by Janina Kowalski / February 9 / 0 commentsWe need not look any further than the devastating impact opioid addiction has had in the United States, to understand the continued...
by Janina Kowalski / February 6 / 0 commentsWith the New Year under way, we hope that everyone working a program of addiction recovery made it through the holiday (one...
by Janina Kowalski / January 4 / 0 commentsWith the Christmas holiday approaching, many parents are excited to have their children back home from college. For most parents, the last...
by Janina Kowalski / December 22 / 0 commentsSome thoughts on daring greatly…step into the arena “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how...
by Janina Kowalski / December 8 / 0 commentsWe are no strangers to public health crises in the United States; and we have a long history finding solutions to such...
by Janina Kowalski / November 23 / 0 commentsThe long, arduous road to the polls has finally come to end with the nation casting their votes. The night of November...
by Janina Kowalski / November 10 / 0 commentsHeroin The Silent Killer First responders in South Florida witness heroin the silent killer every day and really every two hours. That's...
by Janina Kowalski / October 31 / 0 commentsThose of us who work in the field of addiction medicine know all too well the impact that alcohol can have on...
by Janina Kowalski / October 28 / 0 comments