What is glass

What Is Glass?

What is glass? Crystal methamphetamine, or crystal meth, is an illegal, habit-forming drug with an impact on your central nervous system. The drug looks like frosty crystals, which is why users sometimes refer to meth as glass. BoardPrep Recovery Center® has treatments and programs designed to treat glass dependency holistically. Users seeking to shake the…

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Addiction Treatment For Doctors Changes Everything

Addiction treatment for doctors changes everything Doctors recover from addiction at a much higher rate than others and it’s not because they are smarter. Similarly, recovery rates for people who go through drug courts are much better than average. What do rehab-seeking doctors and drug court participants have in common, when it comes to better…

Woman struggling with bipolar disorder and drug addiction

Bipolar Disorder and Drug Addiction

When individuals have both a mental health disorder and a drug addiction, they have co-occurring disorders. Co-occurring bipolar disorder and drug addiction are common. In the past, professionals saw mental disorders and drug addictions as separate issues. Therefore, individuals often needed to seek treatment separately, leading to low success rates for individuals dealing with both…

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What Teens Learn from Vaping

Make no mistake, vaping behavior is a gateway to harder drug use. Getting hooked on nicotine through smoking is already the top addiction. Now, vapor delivers nicotine to the brain much more effectively than smoke. Higher blood concentrations of nicotine occur in “vapers” versus smokers, generally. But set aside physical addiction, the chemical and structural…

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Treatment for Heroin Addiction: Does It Work?

Heroin’s an illicit street drug. It’s also an opiate with high addiction potential. If you’re struggling with dependence on this drug, it can seem hopeless. In reality, high-quality treatment for heroin addiction works. Understanding Addiction Addiction’s a chronic disease of the brain. It manifests in cravings for a chemical. This drug quickly becomes the focal…