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.
June is Men’s health month. To celebrate we wanted to focus on male athletes that have overcome many obstacles during their careers.
To raise mental health awareness and give our pets the praise they deserve, we caught up with the Workit team, an animal-loving bunch, to see just how animal companions have helped them.
March 8th is International Women’s Day, and regardless of your gender, it’s the perfect time to celebrate women making waves in the addiction recovery world.
My hope is that The Heroin Effect helps to spread awareness and shed some light on the opioid crisis that our friends, families, neighbors, communities, and our country as a whole is facing.
But the fight to de-stigmatize drug use and addiction is far from over. Change also begins in the hearts and minds of regular people. One way to help bring that about comes in the fairly simple format of changing the way we talk about addiction.
Halloween is a great reason to get wasted. Or is it? Here are all the things I don't miss about drinking on Halloween:
September is National Recovery Month, and at Workit Health we’re celebrating with our team all month long. I talked to our team about what working in recovery means to them, and why it matters.
In honor of National Recovery Month, we look at why stories of recovery matter. It’s important to share recovery stories, during National Recovery Month, and every other month.
Demi Lovato overdosed, and received Narcan, the life-saving overdose antidote. Here are 5 fast facts about Narcan.
This June, the US House of Representatives passed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. Should it pass the Senate and be signed by the President, here is what patients on buprenorphine (Suboxone, Subutex, Zubsolv) can expect.
Every time I read yet another article about the suicides of Anthony Bourdain, or Kate Spade — or anyone else who tragically took their life — it stings.
If you’re struggling, and not sure you can make it, I urge you to not focus in on Anthony and Kate as the only two stories of celebrities struggling with depression right now. There are plenty of unremarkable and everyday stories of overcoming depression.
At Workit Health, we're now reading Leslie Jamison's The Recovering. We'd love it if you joined us.
'This Is Us' deals with many types of addiction: pain pill addiction, alcohol addiction, and food addiction. But how accurate is the show?
New Year's Eve is the ultimate excuse to party hard. Call it amateur hour, but New Year’s makes drug users everywhere, reformed and not, pause and remember crazy years past. So what can you do on New Year’s, if you aren’t planning to get high?
New Year's resolutions can feel daunting, but they don't have to be complicated or self-punishing. The new year is a great time for reflection and setting goals.
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