Addiction comes in many forms it doesn’t always mean an individual is drinking or using drugs. Anything can become an addiction if it begins to affect your daily life negatively and despite the fact you know you should stop you can’t. (1) Characteristics of addiction are the inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control,…
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm Location: 205 West Parkway Drive, Suite 1 Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234 Host: Behavioral Crossroads, LLC, Mental Health Partial Care Program The Mental Health Association of New Jersey (NJMHP) The Mental Health Association of New Jersey in Atlantic County & (NAMI) National Alliance on Mental Illness Present:…
What does mental health mean? Simply defined mental health is a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being. In todays society the topic of one’s mental health is becoming more openly discussed, as it should. For some of us we go along in life never being extremely impacted by our own…
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…
With the holiday season quickly approaching, for many of us our first thoughts are holiday parties, food, drinks, and just having a good time with family and friends. However, this can also be the time of year that can trigger someone in recovery to relapse if they don’t have the proper tools and strategies in…
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…
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…
