What is Chronic Pain? According to the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA), chronic pain is “pain that continues beyond...
Is the Opioid Epidemic Getting Worse?
The opioid crisis, also called the opioid epidemic, became formally recognized as a public health emergency in 2010. The number of...
How An Addict Thinks
What is an addict? The Latin origin of the word addict is chillingly appropriate – “to sell out, betray, become enslaved by.”...
What Does Heroin Do to the Body and Brain?
Heroin is an opioid drug that can have severe, sometimes irreversible, effects on the body and brain. The brain controls all...
How to Help a Heroin Addict
Heroin is an opioid made from morphine, which comes from the seed pod of the opium poppy. It is a highly addictive drug, valued by...
Does Addiction Ever Go Away?
Once a person moves from casual use of a substance to addiction, the brain rewires itself to compulsively seek more of the addictive...