Get Help~ For You or a Loved One

Press the button to call the National Substance abuse hotline for facilities in your area- most of them free (with state insurance)

If you need help in ANY STATE- Start here… insurance or no insurance. This is the same # you’ll get from all the social media influencers.

PLEASE PLEASE be careful of the popular recovered addicts and their claims of helping 1000’s & 1000’s. Do your research on body brokering

The CRAFT method is what I follow because it’s aimed at encouraging healthy, constructive changes, and focused on helping your child develop, or re-develop, a life. Craft is a positive, behavioral approach, changing behaviors — theirs and yours — not just talking about them.

Here’s a webinar from the authors of Understanding Addiction: Know Science- No Stigma

Here are 2 questionaires to see if someone is using substances “too” much. Might be a great way to introduce the idea of help.

Push for questionnaire from National Institute of Drug Use

More resources from National Institute of Drug Use

From AA
Am I a Drug addict?

Free resources at Partnership To End Addiction including tips on preventing substance use to guidance on managing recovery from addiction, with information and resources every step of the way.

Dr R Corey Walker- explains Dopamine perfectly!

Click Here for an excellent explanation of what Heroin does to the brain & What drives so many people to give up what we value the most: family and the love of our children, in exchange for one more high, prison and death?

Heroin takes the normal chemical circuits in a person’s brain and makes it go awry like a pre-schooler with a chemistry set.

The problem is that opioid drugs reprioritize the addict’s needs. The survival priorities are not food, water, family, children anymore, but rather getting more drugs.

Mental Health and addiction- Put the shovel Down

Put the shovel down Boundaries- should you kick them out?

This very up close and personal video by Nicole Labor Is the best explanation of how addiction takes hold. She helped me understand so much my first year.

https://fb.watch/fwk8BtNoQt/

Dr Matt & Dr Mike explain Very in depth look at opioids In the brain