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 December 15, 2018
There is a saying by Alan Kay, an educator and computer science pioneer that isn’t about addiction or substance abuse at all, though it might help those who hold certain myths about addiction in high regard. “Context alone is worth 80 IQ points.” What he meant by this is that if you know what a Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated December 14, 2018
One of the most controversial steps that have been taken to help with America’s overdose and drug addiction problems, especially those addicted to opioids, are safe injection sites and needle exchanges. Their primary purpose is to have people on standby who can monitor people injecting and prevent overdose as well as keep infectious and potentially Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated December 12, 2018
Alcoholism has been known for a long time to included mental dependency, physical dependency or both with devastating effects surround a drinker’s personal life and immediate family and friends. Often times, their drinking will lead them to make irrational decisions under impaired judgment which can get the injured or killed in such traumatic events like Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated December 7, 2018
Governor of Missouri Mike Parson recently made a public statement declaring that the state is overdue for a statewide prescription monitoring database for doctors. In every state but Missouri, a state prescription monitoring database is instituted which makes preventing prescription drugs from ending up on the streets a great deal easier for law enforcement, helping Read More
Edited by Paul Alexander
Last updated December 6, 2018
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 70,237 people died from drug overdoses nationally in 2017. Forty percent involved fentanyl or similar synthetic opioids, up 45 percent over 2016 records. In Washington, the total deaths from overdose of the synthetic drug were 48 people for the entire year of 2017 but already Read More
