Project R.O.A.D. (Recovery Over Alcohol & Drugs) BEHAVIORAL CROSSROADS, EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ

Egg Harbor Township, NJ, November 12, 2018 – Behavioral Crossroads, LLC is announcing their community program called Project R.O.A.D. in affiliation with the Pleasantville Police Department. The agencies are working together several days a week providing outreach and resources to those struggling with addiction and mental health issues in the local community. The Outreach team…

Loving Someone In Active Addiction

There is a constant overwhelming feeling of fear and worry when you love someone in active addiction. Whether it be a friend, child, parent or spouse the nightmare is the same. I say nightmare because that’s what it feels like, and anyone who has been in this position I’m sure would say the same. When…

A Mark of Disgrace or Infamy

  The stigma of addiction. Most of us have dealt with addiction in one form or another, and even with the severity of opioid addiction becoming more prevalent in the recent years, we still label addicts as junkies, crackheads, criminals, and fiends just to name a few. What most of us seem to forget is…

List of Ways to Manage Your Sadness

It’s kind of like this…. You sleep for ten hours and wake up, absolutely exhausted. Every day, all you want to do is lie in bed and hide away from the world. The things that used to make you happy, don’t anymore. You have zero interest to do anything. Zero motivation. You go on living…

Opioid Epidemic

  Drug overdose is the lead cause of accidental death in the state of New Jersey. Opioids in two words: highly addictive. When taking opioid medications, the drug effects parts of the brain that cause pain and emotion. This then produces “the feel good, high feeling” in the brain, dopamine, causing you to have a…