Reading Time: 4 Minutes Can Dry January Be Problematic? “Dry January” has a good ring and has been used as a successful marketing campaign to encourage people to refrain from drinking for the entire month of January, similar to a New Year’s Resolution. According to one poll, as much as one-fifth of the U.S. population participates in Dry January, which originated in […]
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Dry January is a public health campaign advocating for people to abstain from consuming alcohol for the entire month of January. It is a semi-recent public health campaign that began around 2014 and is practiced in the United States and Europe. Dry January brings awareness to many people struggling with alcohol misuse without realizing it. […]
Reading Time: 3 Minutes “Dry January” is 30 days during the first month of the year, where individuals refrain from drinking alcohol as a way to cleanse their body and their mind. Alcohol consumption usually peaks during the holidays, fueling addictions and mental health disorders, often leaving individuals feeling a plethora of negative feelings. Alcohol acts on the neurochemical […]
Reading Time: 4 Minutes For those of us in recovery, we tend to wait until after the holidays to focus on our recovery and use the New Year holiday as a benchmark to begin our recovery journey. We live in a society focused on new beginnings and fresh starts, so our obsession with New Year’s resolutions is not surprising. […]
California Native American Day: Understanding Substance Misuse Among the Indigenous Population • November 14, 2022 “Protect our Elders, and they will pass their knowledge and wisdom to our Children. Protect our Women, and they will Read More Study Drugs in High School and College: What are they? • November 14, 2022 What Are Study Drugs? […]
