How to Fight Adderall Addiction
How to Fight Adderall Addiction The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital Troy Borges 👍In 2016, The New York Times Magazine gave millennials a new nickname: Generation Adderall. Since its release in 1996, doctors have prescribed the drug to millions of people—oftentimes children. While prescription drugs can...
Female Veterans’ Issues: Harassment, Trauma, and Healing
Women in the United States military often report fighting two wars. First, they experience the stress, trauma, and self-sacrifice that applies to all soldiers. Second, they fight the battle of belonging and achieving...
Binge Eating Disorder Treatment for Florida Veterans
It is not normal to feel genuine shame, guilt, or embarrassment about your eating habits. If you find yourself feeling compelled to overeat repeatedly, you may benefit from binge eating disorder treatment. Today,...
How to Treat PTSD in Adults
From Springbrook Hospital -
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that is often chronic and disabling. It can change the way you see yourself and others. Moreover, this disorder can make it hard for...
Chronic Pain and Rehab: How to Manage Addiction and Health
If you struggle with chronic pain and addiction, making the decision to receive treatment at a rehab center can feel like choosing between two types of suffering. Here is what you need to...
How Can Fentanyl Overdose Symptoms Be Treated?
From Springbrook Hospital -
Not everyone who experiences fentanyl overdose symptoms intentionally took fentanyl. According to The National Institute of Drug Abuse, individuals who seek out illicit drugs like heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine often unknowingly take fentanyl. This...
Oxycodone Addiction: Signs and Alternatives for Veterans
If you’re a veteran battling chronic pain and addiction, you may be searching for an alternative. Many veterans develop an oxycodone addiction because they’re struggling to manage service-related pain. However, at some point, the medication becomes less effective, but your body still craves it. To make matters worse, you’re still in pain. If this is the case for you, Heroes’ Mile can help you start recovery without choosing between addiction or chronic pain.
Common Pain Medications with Oxycodone
Oxycodone is a primary ingredient in a variety of commonly used painkillers prescribed to veterans for pain management. Depending on the brand and dosage prescribed, oxycodone can come in different colors, shapes, and sizes....
The Science Linking Substance Abuse and PTSD in Veterans
Most people don’t need evidence that substance abuse and PTSD in veterans are linked. They can see it with their own eyes: in friends,...
What You Should Know About PTSD and Substance Abuse
Traumatic events are situations that can shape an individual, whether it’s something they experienced...
Step 7: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Hey everyone, your favorite Recovery Advocate Vance Johnson here. This week we’re talking about seven of the 12 steps, “Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”
If you read my explanation of step six,...
Vance Johnson Recovery Center Is Now In-Network With Cigna
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – December 2, 2020
The Vance Johnson Recovery Center, a state-licensed, Joint Commission-accredited addiction treatment center based in Las Vegas, Nevada, is delighted to announce that it is now in-network with...
Christian Based Drug Rehab Florida | Co-Occurring Disorder
Christian Based Drug Rehab Florida | Co-Occurring Disorder The Blackberry Center Behavioral Hospital Troy Borges 👍Having a co-occurring disorder...
How to Stay Active After Retiring from Active Duty
After retiring from active duty, veterans just like you...
What Are Suicidal Ideations? Definition and Symptoms
Suicide is the act of intentionally ending one’s own...
The Opioid Withdrawal Timeline
Opioid misuse among veterans continues to be a primary...
Veteran Support Groups: How Can They Help?
Overcoming your mental health and addiction battles alone can...
Sober Santa’s 10 Tips for a Sober Holiday
Staying sober for the holidays can be especially challenging, especially for people in early recovery. From office parties to family gatherings, alcohol—and often, drugs—seem...
7 Perfect Self-Care Quotes to Nurture Your Mental Health
As you jump into the new year, it is important to create space for mental health self-care. If you’re not quite sure where to...
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
Hi friends, Vance Johnson here. Last week we discussed the second step of the 12-step program. This week we will continue the series onto...
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves
Hey everyone, Vance Johnson here. Now that we’ve covered the third step, I want to talk about the fourth step in the 12-step program:...
Step 2: Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Hey everyone, I’m Vance Johnson, a former NFL athlete and current recovery advocate for the Vance Johnson Recovery Center. Continuing our conversation about the...