Category: Addiction Studies

Opioid abuse in the United States has reached overwhelming levels in recent years, leading for demands for federal intervention, new legislation, and changes in pharmaceutical regulations. Unfortunately, while these actions can help save thousands of lives, it has an unfortunate side effect: those who suffer from chronic pain find it...

Pranic Healing & Reiki, Do They Actually Help? St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center’s ER sees hundreds of accidental overdose victims cycle in and out of their medical facility weekly. Dr. LePietra’s personal mission is to reduce the use of addictive opiate drugs by ER doctors and nurses for pain. She...

Update: June 21st, 2016 Happy International Yoga Day! This beautiful day of June 21st is International Yoga Day! Take a moment to celebrate the empowering art of mind, body, spirit, and movement this ancient Indian art. Always wanted to try yoga? Why not start today? Yoga mats are about $10-$20 at many...

We’ve been hard at work here at Harbor Village, bringing you the latest news about substance abuse and addiction recovery, as well as providing insightful tips regarding rehab, support, and sober life. Rather you follow our blog regularly (we love you if you do), you only stop in occasionally (visit...

Streaming video services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Instant Video have change the way we watch TV– so much so that telephone companies like Verizon are getting in on the game with their own streaming apps. YouTube,  site that began as a means of sharing cute family videos...

Adolescence: a time of physical metamorphosis, biochemical modification, and social evolution. Preteen to young adulthood is a time of growth, exploration, and burgeoning independence; a time of first kisses, first loves, first heartbreaks. It can also be a terribly dramatic time: explosive fights with friends and family members, emotional turmoil...

Fentanyl: The Opiate that Killed Prince The horrors of the deadly opiate Fentanyl is dripping from every tongue shocked by the accidental overdose death of Prince. However, fentanyl overdose and toxicity is the root of unprecedented overdose deaths around the country. Orange County, Florida- in particular- is plagued by the...

Pets! We love our furry, feathery, scaly, slinky companions! They bring us a different type of love and affection into our lives and some studies say they can even help extend your life. They keep us young, active, and sometimes they can keep us on the sober path. Whether you have...

Why do we do this to ourselves? Why? We know live action versions of anime are awful! (There are few exceptions.) So why are we tainting Fullmetal Alchemist with the release of a live action movie? Because we want to live in fantasy; we want to become tangibly apart of...

Treating Drug Overdose Is a Race Against Time Drug overdoses can be fatal- and they often are. In 2014 47,055 Americans died from drug overdose. Accidental overdose is now the number one cause of death in America; from 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million people have died from drug...