Simcoe Addiction and Mental Health

Simcoe Addiction & Mental Health

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What Are the 15 Coping Skills for Addiction?

One of the four tenets of relapse prevention after addiction treatment is to develop healthy coping skills. Learning ways to deal with stress, underlying mental health symptoms, and negative emotions is crucial, as some experts believe people use substances as a maladaptive way to cope. Picking up new, healthier coping skills for addiction is something

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The Impact of Drug Addiction on Emotional and Physical Spheres

The cost of substance use in Canada is $49.1 billion. $22.4 billion of these costs can be attributed to lost productivity in the workplace, while $13.4 billion goes towards addiction-related hospitalizations, emergency visits, and prescriptions. Not included in this alarming number is the price of addiction for individuals and families touched by this chronic disease.

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What is the Best Solution to Prevent Drug Addiction?

Being assigned male at birth, identifying as LGBTQ+, experiencing early life traumas, and pre-existing mental health conditions are predictors of addiction during adolescence or later in life. Having one or even many of these risk factors does not always mean someone will get addicted, though. There are just as many factors that can reduce someone’s

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