National Recovery Month: Celebrating Successes in Mental Health & Substance Use Recovery This September
We spend a lot of time focused on the struggles that come along with mental health and substance use disorders, but during National Recovery Month, we’re taking a different approach and recognizing and honoring those who have come through on the other side. At Retreat Behavioral Health, we see firsthand just how difficult it can …
Social Stigma and Substance Use: How Society’s Perception of Women with Substance Use Disorders Impacts Treatment
When we talk about social stigma and substance use disorders, it’s the women and mothers who often bear the brunt of negative perceptions and the weight of guilt and shame. It’s this factor, in fact, that often plays a major role in preventing women from receiving the type of effective treatment and recovery they need, …
Women in Recovery: Addiction and Gender Bias
When it comes to substance use disorders, gender affects everything from how alcohol and drugs are metabolized to the social and cultural impact of substance use on the kind and support and treatment available. Add in compounding factors like race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, and it’s easy to see why women’s recovery hurdles might feel …
Family Dynamics in Addiction: Understanding the Effects of Substance Use on the Family Ecosystem
If you or a relative are involved in substance use, you are among tens of millions of Americans fighting the battle. Close to 38 million adolescents and adults are active users of illicit drugs, and 29.5 million people 12 and over suffer from Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). With so many people throughout the U.S. impacted …
Addiction and Parenting: Navigating the Challenges
As many as 8.7 million U.S. children live in a home where at least one parent has a substance use disorder (SUD). While the fallout from living in an environment punctuated by a parent experiencing substance dependency varies from child to child and household to household, it’s fair to say that growing up with a …
