We don’t get sober in a vacuum. Addiction recovery is affected by the world around us, and at Workit Health we’re here to break it all down.
It’s that time of year again. We’re falling back. Oh no – not on old habits that don’t serve us. We’re done with those. We’re shedding old thoughts and behaviors like leaves falling crisply from the trees. But we are falling back an hour, as Daylight Saving Time ends.
On World Mental Health Day, Understand That Addiction and Suicide Are Undeniably Linked. October 10th is World Mental Health Day. 2019’s theme is Working together to prevent suicide.
It is widely accepted that overly aggressive and deceitful marketing tactics by the companies that make oxycodone, fentanyl and other opioids helped start the opioid crisis in the 1990s. Now, thousands of lawsuits at both the federal and state level have been filed to hold these companies to account.
August 31st is Overdose Awareness Day, and this year the State of Michigan is addressing the opioid epidemic with free naloxone at participating pharmacies
There’s a moment in the new HBO series Euphoria where Ru (in a knockout performance by former Disney star Zendaya) tries to buy drugs, only to be denied, that felt eerily familiar.
Linda Davis recently retired from the 41B District Court to oversee the organization she founded 11 years ago, Families Against Narcotics. Judge Davis founded FAN after her own daughter confessed to struggling with heroin addiction, and she found resources in the community lacking for family support. We caught up with Judge Davis to ask about her experience educating communities about addiction.
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