In this episode of Of Substance, Katie and Elliott discuss all of that and more! Join them for a talk on how drugs are changing, what risk factors you can look out for, and why helping an addict can sometimes feel so hard.
By: Olivia Sinicropi The word “accessibility” can bring to mind different things. It could mean the ability to gain assistance in your education, or find a job where you can do your best work, or live in a place that takes your needs into account. And in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, every…
By: Marie Collins, LCPC On March 16, 2020, in an effort to fight the rising rates of COVID-19 in Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan ordered the closure of almost all businesses where people might gather. Bars, restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, offices, rec centers, places of worship – all closed to protect against the pandemic sweeping the…
If you’re like us, you’re still catching up on the hour of sleep lost in Daylight Saving Time. But it’s not that big of a deal . . . right?
Sit down for a chat with Mark Whitaker, LCPC, and Olivia Sinicropi as they discuss the ways sleep impacts our lives and our health. Conversations include alcohol, cell phone addiction, parenting, AND MORE!
What’s the opposite of addiction? Community. Things get deep this week as Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, and Katie McCabe, LCPC, discuss that idea and more that people face in their recovery.
By: Brian Warner I had a job interview about two weeks before COVID shut everything down. The growing pandemic had been in the news more and more lately, but most stateside cases were in California or New York, so I wasn’t too worried about it. But I still wondered if I should shake hands with…
By: Colette Shade, LMSW These days, body positivity is ubiquitous. Bodies that are fat and thin, young and old, multiracial, trans and gender nonconforming can be seen everywhere from popular social media accounts to magazine covers to advertisements for Dove body wash and Hanes underwear. The “Dove Real Beauty Pledge” tells customers that “beauty is…
By: Brian Warner In Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. When the gods split them apart, each half could do nothing but want the other, constantly lost and searching for their missing piece. As Plato writes in Symposium, “[Each] one longed for its other…
Join Katie McCabe, LCPC, and Resource Connect Clinical Director Marie Collins, LCPC, to learn more about what recovery looks like as you relearn how to fulfill some basic needs. From drug dreams to diet, Of Substance jumps into part two of three: healing the body after addiction.
Where do substance use and mental illness meet? What looks like mental illness but gets more complicated on closer inspection? Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, and Katie McCabe, LCPC, go back inside the mind to talk about how addiction can get wrapped up in a tangle of neurons. Because for as complicated as recovery is, it might’ve met its match next to the brain!