According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10% of Americans report symptoms that are in keeping with diagnosis requirements for clinical depression. Depression…
Discovering that your teenage child has a problem with drugs or alcohol is devastating. As a parent, you want your son or daughter to be…
The abuse of drugs and the development of an addiction can be very complicated. In some cases, an addiction can develop accidentally when an individual…
It’s extremely unlikely there’s even a single doctor out there that would approve of mixing alcohol with any drug. It’s a simple matter of logic…
Stress can be debilitating, often interfering with a person’s quality of life. We all experience some forms of stress. As adults, we are better able…
Self-injury or self-harm is usually a response to severe emotional distress. A person may cause intentional, non-suicidal injuries to his or her body as a…
Suicide. Just hearing this word can evoke a range of emotions. For many people, the initial reaction to hearing about suicide is discomfort or fear.…
A vast majority of people don’t know how to label addiction. So is addiction a disease or a lifestyle choice? It often shocks people to…
By George Livengood – Program Director, Canon House Do you remember moping around the house as a kid and mom saying, “Go outside and play!”?…
By Ani Thomson, MFTi, Woodland Hills, PHP/IOP It’s normal for teens to experience symptoms of anxiety, especially when it comes to school. There is usually…