Sean’s ‘treatment’ for sleeping out

SEAN Tovey has fought drug and alcohol addiction, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia and depression.

Drug Rehab Help

Drug addiction which is said to be spreading on different societies nowadays has caused major dilemmas among authorities. This is due to the reason that people who are under the influence of the drugs are prone to troubles and accidents. Prohibited drug usage could not only make a person dysfunctional but it could also impair [...]

60 Day Rehab and Opioid Addiction

Morphine, heroin, codeine, and methadone are all known as opioids. They are derived from the sap of the opium poppy, which has been used for thousands of years to relieve pain. In order to cope with pain, endorphins and enkaphalins are naturally produced by our body. As an example, a sports injury stimulates the body [...]

Local children with Bipolar 1 Disorder needed for study

It used to be called manic depression. It’s known these days as bipolar one disorder. Now Carilion Clinic is looking for children to take part in a study on bipolar one.

7 Stars Living With Bipolar

This past April, pop singer and Disney actress Demi Lovato went public about her bipolar disorder diagnosis . In interviews to the media, the 18-year-old said that she’d decided to talk about her diagnosis in order to help others.

Bipolar Disorder: The Drawbacks of Excessive Positive Emotion

Too much positive emotion in the wrong context can act negatively on people’s health as in bipolar disorder, or manic depression – a psychiatric condition characterized by mood swings.

Drug Rehab Information

In the recent years, studies have shown that drug rehab is needed by roughly about eight million Americans. Of those eight million, about two million are teenagers addicted to both drugs and alcohol. For most people, drug abuse tears down live and dreams, and only when they lose family support do they see that they [...]

Drug Rehab and Amphetamine Addiction

One of the substances that contain very highly addictive properties is known as amphetamines. There are many negative consequences that comes with the use of very highly addictive substances. The birth of numerous problems is one of the main consequence of using amphetamines. One of these problems involves the law. As a result of buying [...]

Drug rehab and substance withdrawal

A set of physiological and behavioral symptoms that result when people who have been using substances heavily for prolonged periods of time stop using the substance or greatly reduce their use is called substance withdrawal. The symptoms of intoxication from a given substance is normally different from the symptoms of withdrawal despite using the same [...]

How I Overcame Bipolar II (and Saved My Own Life)

(Author’s note and disclaimer: The following piece details my story of overcoming a serious and potentially-fatal mental illness, bipolar II, between the years of 2000-2007. I have decided to write this story now, painful as reliving some of the hist…

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