Videos Resources for Addiction, Recovery and Mental Health

When you drink, alcohol raises your blood alcohol content, contributing to mental and physical effects. Over time, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms can occur.

As a chronic disease, AUD affects both mental and physical health. Effective treatment uses therapy and medication to address all symptoms and improve quality of life.

Mindfulness is an integral part of DBT because it helps you learn how to be present and control and accept your thoughts, rather than those thoughts controlling you.

Almost everyone experiences trauma. Resilience helps you learn how to effectively deal with it.

In part three of this video series, learn behavioral strategies to help you when you’re experiencing depression, and integrate these small steps into your life.

Addiction is a treatable disease that involves the brain’s pleasure and reward centers. Different environmental and genetic factors can make a person more at risk for addiction.

There are times when you’ll face stress, anxiety or situations that trigger you. Learning healthy coping skills like square breathing can help you through these events.

In part five of this video series on relapse, learn how you might use addictive behaviors to control aspects of your life and how this could be a problem.

Trauma and addiction are often related to one another. Understanding trauma and its role in addiction can help you gain a better understanding of substance use.

There are several important medicines approved to help with the treatment of opioid use disorder. These medications can be life-saving and help you manage withdrawal

The effects of alcohol can be more pervasive and far-reaching than we might realize.

In part one of this video series on alcohol use disorder (AUD), learn what symptoms are used to diagnose AUD and how its severity is diagnosed.