Archive for June 2016
Addiction and Family Roles
This video highlights family roles in addiction. Addiction is a family disease. The disease is insidious, and infiltrates into the family as well.There is usually dysfunction of some sort that can broken down into roles. Know these roles. Information is power. Drug Free Workplace Pa can help you define these roles and effectively address them.…
Read MoreGambling Addiction
Addiction-the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. An addiction can come in many forms. Drug Free Workplace Pa is more than willing to educate you on gambling addictions. You can break free. You can get help. That is why we are here.
Read MorePresident Obama’s Response to Heroin In Harrisburg, PA
The following article is one story about a local parent, her son, and the disease of addiction. it highlights the presidents response to a letter that was sent to him. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/06/president_obama_responds_to_mo.html
Read MorePrescription Drug Abuse
Prescription pain killer overdoses claim 44 lives in the United States every day. We must work together to halt this crisis. More than 1 in 4 patients with chronic pain experience opioid dependence. Drug Addiction is a preventable disease. Education is the key.
Read MoreDomestic Violence – It Rarely Ends
Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence, and emotional abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically; however, the…
Read MoreNature Walks to Benefit Physical and Mental Health
Walking in nature is fabulous for your mental and physical health. It is known to lower depression, enhance the senses, and can be used as a healthy therapeutic tool.
Read More16 Characteristics of REAL Love
Love. It makes the world go ‘round, right? Well, at least that’s the how the saying goes. But is it true? It should be, but so many people confuse love with things like jealousy or possessiveness. True love isn’t either of those things. But these 16 things are. So here are the characteristics of REAL…
Read MoreBe Optimistic, Be the solution. Be the Light. Educate yourself on Substance Abuse.
Big Pharma and The Drug Epidemic
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/recovery-blog/big-pharma-drug-epidemic/
Read MorePTSD- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder~ What do you know about it? What comes to mind?
https://letmereach.com/2014/02/01/ptsd-in-the-aftermath-of-narcissistic-abuse/
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