The Gap Between What Families Imagine and What Rehabs Actually Do Most families only encounter the world of addiction treatment when they are already exhausted, frightened, and desperate for answers. By the time they reach out to a rehab, they have usually tried everything they can think of at home [...]

For decades, “gateway drugs” were easy to identify. The message was simple, start with weed, end with heroin. Schools, parents, and prevention campaigns drilled it in like gospel. Weed was the door to disaster. But the world has changed, and so have the drugs. The modern gateway doesn’t smell like [...]

For years, the story of nicotine addiction was predictable, smoke, cough, quit, repeat. Cigarettes were the enemy, and health campaigns made that clear. But while we were celebrating fewer smokers, the nicotine industry was busy reinventing itself. It traded ashtrays for USB ports, tar for tech, and suddenly “quitting smoking” [...]