By: Ghada Nusair, PharmD, Ph.D. You know what your belonging “culture” is like; you can define your community or society, and you can describe its distinguishable worldview, beliefs, and norms. What is challenging, however, is identifying your “drug culture.” Interpreting your drug culture is a helpful technique in the recovery process, but you cannot interpret something if you are not aware of it. Therefore, as an individual actively involved in substance use recovery, it is vitally...

By: Zacarya Elbash The book Crave: The Hidden Biology of Addiction and Cancer  by Raphael Cuomo, Ph.D., provides a framework for understanding how repeated exposure shapes biology. It identifies how addiction in society is commonly framed as a matter of chemical dependency. However, this definition of addiction lacks the essential context in which it occurs and cravings form. Crave  redefines addiction and considers how modern life conditions us to seek relief in ways that eventually...

By: Mikayla Owen With the holidays upon us and weather changes bringing shorter, darker days, many people face emotional, physical, and...