Education & Awareness

Despite its success rate, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), is still considered controversial in the field of addiction treatment. Some believe that treating addiction with medications such as Suboxone simply replaces one addiction with another.

Social media is supposed to connect us to the world, but for some people, particularly those in recovery, social media can be dangerous.

According to the American Psychological Association, minority stress is behind it. While times have changed, members of the LGBTQ community are still the minority and face incredible amounts of discrimination and prejudice that can trigger stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental disorders.

While many accidental overdoses last year involved Fentanyl, there is an even more dangerous drug hitting the streets, Carfentanil.

In this video, Dr. Mark Green, Addiction Psychiatrist at Psych Garden, discusses buprenorphine and the need for Medication-Assisted Treatment.

The study, which was recently published in the journal Addiction, involved 4.4 million veterans and was conducted over a period of six years.

In this video, our Family Wellness Manager, Tina Muller, shares with parents some techniques for empowering their teens to resist peer pressure to try drugs and alcohol.

Dr. Randall Dwenger, explores the debate around medical marijuana as a treatment for opioid addiction. Does he believe medical marijuana can be a pathway to recovery?

Addiction is a chronic brain disease with no cure, but is treatment possible? Learn more about how this disease works.

Many Americans consider excessive drinking at parties a rite of passage, but these "harmless" habits can spiral into alcohol dependency. Learn some of the common signs of alcoholism.