Southwestern Sobriety: Sober Living Resource

It is amazing how quickly the body begins to heal when you quit smoking. This is what happens if you quit cold-turkey:
1. Pulse, hand temperature and blood pressure go back to normal within 20 minutes.
2. It only takes eight hours for blood-nicotine levels to drop by almost 94 percent....

The American Academy of Pain Medication reports that 1.5 billion people around the world suffer from chronic pain. For many of those people, opioids are their painkillers of choice. Opioid overdose killed more than 16,500 in the United States in 201...

Prescription drug addiction is a serious and life-threatening problem that affects many thousands of people and their families. As the pharmaceutical industry continues to develop new and stronger drugs, the risks of addiction are steadily mounting....

Prozac and Zoloft are antidepressants that are used to treat a number of psychological disorders. They contain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs that act to rebalance the chemicals in the brain. Their effect on serotonin, a neurotransmitter...