“Substance use disorder remains the most serious illness to afflict pharmacists in their first 15 years of practice,” says Dr. Jeff Baldwin, PharmD, RPh, an emeritus professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy, in Omaha. Having co-authored two chapters of the 2018 ASHP…
If someone you love is struggling with an addiction, then encouraging them to find treatment is one of the kindest things you can do for them. Substance abuse wreaks havoc on every part of a person’s life, damaging their health, finances, and relationships. If the process of staging an intervention is in their best interest,…
Whether you’re just a few days sober or many years in recovery, whether you’re currently in a treatment center or have been clean a long time, encountering a drinking or using dream (or nightmare) can come rattling into your sleeping-dreaming consciousness at any given time! And when it does, while it can be unsettling, it’s…
When a person decides to quit using drugs and alcohol, they will encounter withdrawal on their path to recovery. Recovery is possible with help, and when you choose a medical detox program Florida residents trust, you’ll be able to find it. But how can you get help learning how to deal with withdrawal symptoms in…
BoardPrep Recovery offers a leading-edge drug rehab for professionals in beautiful South Tampa, Florida. Our experts specialize in detox and the treatment of serious addiction and complex dual disorders. Based on our successful physician health recovery model, BoardPrep improves long-term results through enhanced structure, coaching, and ongoing recovery monitoring. Through our decades of clinical experience, the clinician founders developed…
Xanax is a powerful sedative drug that raises levels of pleasure chemicals in the user’s brain. The flood of chemicals causes extreme pleasure, calmness, and suppressed appetite, which relaxes some people and energizes others. Repeated drug use causes the brain to adapt to higher levels of chemicals. As a result, the user gets agitated, depressed,…
BoardPrep Recovery offers leading-edge addiction treatment in beautiful South Tampa. BoardPrep experts specialize in the treatment of serious addiction and complex dual disorders. Based on the successful physician health recovery model, BoardPrep improves long-term results through enhanced structure, coaching, and ongoing recovery monitoring. Through 30 years of clinical experience, the clinician founders developed the BoardPrep treatment method. BoardPrep Recovery…
Recovery 101 – Handling Our Emotions Sometimes Requires Acceptance, and THAT sometimes Requires ‘Letting Go’ The other day, I found myself getting “riled up” on a phone call with one of my sisters—interestingly enough we were talking about our older sister who’d been hospitalized twice in the past week due to alcohol poisoning—and once we’d…
A longitudinal study funded by the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA) and just recently published in the Journal of American Medicine (JAMA Network Open) concludes the majority (60%) of adolescents with symptoms of heavy substance use had 2 or more symptoms of substance use disorder (SUD) in adulthood.[1] Up front, this research is rather…
A new study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes there was a marked increase in alcohol-related deaths during the first year of the pandemic – more than 99,000 in 2020, which is a 25% increase from the nearly 79,000 fatalities associated…