Substance Use Disorder Resources

Incentive Salience: When Liking Evolves to Wanting, Then Craving An incentive is something that motivates someone to act in some way. Salience is when something is noticeable. That leads to a term found in addiction speak — incentive salience. In the simplest of terms one might call it a trigger, […]

Pride Month: Fostering Inclusivity Can Make Schools More Welcoming for LGBTQ Youth Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (or questioning, also known as LGBTQ) youth face a mountain of challenges in the world. Bullying is one of them. It impacts one in five students ages 12-18 each year, but it’s […]

Gender dysmorphia is not an illness or defect but is a condition that some members of the LGBTQ community face.

Embrace the Benefits of Owning a Feline for Hug Your Cat Day Dogs might be called man’s best friend, but cats are no slouches in the companion department. So, in honor of National Hug Your Cat Day, here’s some appreciation for our feline friends. Besides being soft, fuzzy, and incapable […]

Pride Month: Support Groups That See All Colors of the Rainbow It’s no exaggeration to say there have been tensions between the LGBTQ community and the religious right. Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas was long known for picketing funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers, saying the deaths were punishment for America […]

Don’t Distance Yourself from Asking for Help If Self-Isolation Has You Down One huge change since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic is this new sense of isolation. In much of the U.S. for the last several weeks, people have been urged to quarantine, shelter-in-place, or […]

Mental Health Month: Mental Health Apps There’s an App for That: Downloads to Deep-Six Stress It seems like there’s pretty much an app for everything. Even for elevating one’s mental health. While tapping on your phone isn’t really a replacement for a sit-down with a therapist, there are downloads that […]

World Maternal Mental Health Day Some Expectant and Newly Minted Moms Experience Depression That Goes Way Beyond the Baby Blues Motherhood is considered one of the happiest times of a woman’s life, but for some, those weeks and months after giving birth can be marked by deep depression. World Maternal […]

Global Pandemic Means OMG Stress Levels for OCD Sufferers There’s a gif circulating on social media of a pangolin (basically a scaled anteater) snapping into a tight ball. The caption: “When you hear someone cough.” That pretty much sums up how a lot of people feel in the season of […]

National Alcohol Awareness Month: The First Happy Hours Were Zero-Proof Pastimes Happy hour sometimes can be a one-way (and multiple-cocktail) ticket to a hangover. The original happy hours weren’t terribly likely to raise one’s blood alcohol levels, however. Today, it’s well-known that happy hour means you have a couple of […]