Stress and Addiction: The Link Between Them & How To Survive!

April and Jesse discuss the link between stress and addiction to drugs and alcohol. Stress is a leading cause of relapse. April and Jesse share their experiences with you and what stress coping skills you can use to avoid drug and alcohol abuse self coping.
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Stress contributes to individual decisions to use substances and to return to substance use, typically through self-medication and sensation seeking. These behaviors typically feed into each other, creating a fallout or drop, resulting in increased substance use to relieve that negative feeling, resulting in a negative and recurring cycle. Of these, self-medication is the more common problem, and one that affects an estimated 30%+ of all substance abusers.
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