The addiction helpline blog category for Northbound treatment can offer a wide variety of topics.
If you or someone you know is facing an addiction, we are here to help. Often times it can be very scary to think you are alone in your battle for recovery. However, at Northbound Treatment Center we focus on helping individuals understand their disease, what led them to it, and how to change. People often have many questions and our addiction helpline is here to help answer some of those.
This blog category may not be limited to only help related topics. However, it could also help answer questions about all facets of addiction treatment. Help is something that Northbound strives to give to anyone seeking it from addiction.
The Northbound Treatment blogs will often contain a blend of many different viewpoints. Therefore, it is not recommended to be used as professional medical advice. If you believe that you or someone you love is suffering from substance abuse or mental illness, you should speak with your doctor. However, if you do not have a doctor, we can help offer you recommendations based on your own personal situation. Please give us a call at (866) 311-0003 to discuss your options.
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated January 25, 2019
Studying the human mind is a difficult and lengthy endeavor for medical scientists, psychologist, psychologists and other fields with interests there. The primary reason is that to untangle many mysteries of how the human brain works we would have to break many laws which guarantee the humane treatment to all people. While it would make Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated January 24, 2019
Just the idea of ranking addictions in any way can feel like attempting to figure out who is worse a cheater or a thief? But as science and medicine research continues to advance and the nature of addiction becomes clearer and more precisely understood, it becomes possible to rank substances in several ways. A recent Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated January 24, 2019
An old say you may or may not have heard before is “Children are the messages we send into the future.” But what if we thought about it from a slightly different perspective and make a small adjustment to that saying; “Children are the potential addicts we send into the future”. It certainly gets us Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated January 14, 2019
The number of drug overdoses in 2018 was more than that of fatal car accidents for the first time ever which has been a motivator in modern medicine’s pursuits into understanding addiction every way possible. From psychology to chemistry, medical research has been ramping up around the phenomenon known as addiction as it has also Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated December 17, 2018
To say that there’s a problem with addiction and mental health options for Americans is probably the nicest way to say it when put into contrast with how these deaths are adding up to a point where the country’s life expectancy is affected negatively. Patrick Kennedy, former U.S. congressman and mental health advocate, recently spoke Read More
