Gender-Affirming Surgery Reduces Suicidality and Substance Abuse [New Study]
Highlights: Transgender persons, like the LGBTQ community in general, experience higher rates of substance abuse and mental health conditions. Transgender...
Intensive Outpatient Treatment: Your Complete Guide
Most of us are at least passingly familiar with inpatient rehab. Leaving your life for a month or more to...
Social Isolation and Loneliness of Pandemic Worse for LGBTQ
Overview: The COVID-19 pandemic has also caused a mental health crisis, with millions struggling with anxiety, depression, and loneliness. LGBTQ...
Life During Recovery: The Importance of a Healthy Environment
Overview: Creating a healthy environment is critical to the substance abuse recovery process. In this context, that means both limiting...
High School Students Who Abuse Opiates are More Likely to Attempt Suicide
Overview Studies have long shown a link between substance abuse and the risk of suicide and attempted suicide during adolescence,...
How to Find Alcohol Treatment in Missouri
If you need alcohol treatment in Missouri, it can be hard to know where to turn first. Many people recognize...
Why Starting a Relationship in Early Recovery is a Bad Idea
Highlights: New romantic relationships in early recovery are a bad idea for several reasons: They are distractions from the work...
Older LGBT+ Adults Hit Harder Than Others by COVID Pandemic
Overview: Older adult members of the LGBT+ community are facing an intersection of challenges. The pandemic is unusually dangerous for...
How Do the Best Drug Rehab Centers Work?
If you’re going to study the way something works, you want to study the best in the field. And similarly,...
Medicaid Expansion Improves Med Access for Those in Justice System
In this article: Medications to treat OUD are clinically more effective than psychotherapy alone. People in the criminal justice system...
