Recovery Month: A Time for Celebration and Hope
It’s easy to feel hopeless and defeated when you’ve struggled with drug and alcohol abuse for years. The addiction cycle keeps many people trapped for months, years, and even decades. One [...]
COVID-19 Sends Drug Overdose Deaths Skyrocketing
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an incredible number of unpredictable circumstances and situations. From increased time spent at home as a result of such factors including job loss, children and [...]
June: Celebrating Pride!
by Amanda Bassos, M.S. Regional Clinical Outreach Director, Lifeskills South Florida Celebrate pride. Celebrate community. Celebrate you! Pride Month is a beautiful picture of strength with displays of a large community [...]
A Healthy, Active Lifestyle at Lifeskills
As we recognize National Nutrition Month, we are focusing on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Nutrition and physical activity play a [...]
What should you know about Opioids?
We are recognizing National Prevention Week, an annual health observance dedicated to increasing the awareness of. and action around, mental health and substance use disorders. Each year different themes are included [...]
National Recovery Month: How do I help?
Now in its 29th year, National Recovery Month celebrates the success of those in recovery and helps to raise awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders. This year’s [...]
May is Mental Health Month
May is Mental Health Month, a time to raise awareness about mental health, and one of the most recognized mental health awareness events in the country. This year’s theme, Fitness #4Mind4Body, [...]
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday, April 28, 2018, a day that addresses public safety and public health issue. Unused or expired prescriptions drugs can be safely, and responsibly [...]
How do we recognize the issue and treat alcohol abuse?
Sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD), April is Alcohol Awareness Month, a time set aside to increase awareness, understanding, reduce stigma, and encourage a focus [...]
Erasing the Mental Illness and Addiction Stigma
Mental illness and substance use disorders often have a social stigma attached which sparks a lack of compassion from others. The stigma surrounding these illnesses can hinder people from seeking treatment. [...]
It’s Suicide Prevention Week: What Are You Doing?
This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, an annual observance that aims to inform and engage the nation around the topic of suicide prevention, encourage mental health treatment and educate people [...]
Share Wellness for National Wellness Week
Practicing wellness is essential to behavioral health. During SAMHSA’s 4th annual National Wellness Week, use Facebook and Twitter to share how you enhance your physical, emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual, financial, occupational, [...]
World Suicide Prevention Day
Dearest Friends, Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and I have lots of resources to share with you. […]