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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most respected forms of therapy currently in practice. It is used to help a host of mental health-related issues and disorders, including substance abuse. The history of CBT provides insight into how this form of therapy evolved and has maintained its commitment to being a pragmatic and […]

The Role of Relapse in Addiction Recovery Because addiction has previously been considered a failure of willpower, people who relapse might believe that they are defeated or have failed. This is not true. Addiction changes brain chemistry, and sometimes brain shape, and treatment is a long-term process of changing the brain back as much as […]

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorders in the United States, affecting about 30% of adults at some point during their lives.1 In southern Nevada, anxiety is the number one mental health diagnosis in emergency departments; anxiety-related visits increased from 11,613 in 2009 to 36,696 in 2017, the latest year for which we […]

Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) were treatment programs originally developed to help people struggling with mental illness. Initially called “day hospitals,” these programs were designed in the 1960s to help those who needed an intensive level of psychiatric care but who would also benefit from living in the larger community as well as those who had […]

A hallucinogenic drug is one that changes the way a person sees, thinks about, or feels the reality around them. Some of these drugs occur in nature, like peyote (mescaline), “magic” mushrooms (psilocybin), Salvia divinorum (salvia), and Ayahuasca (containing dimethyltryptamine, or DMT). Others are created synthetically in a lab, including D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ketamine, […]