family-resources

Nitrous oxide feels harmless and legal. Here is how it disables vitamin B12, what the nerve damage looks like at home, and the two tests that catch it early.

Meth and cocaine overdoses kill by heat, heart and seizures, not slowed breathing. What families should do in the first ten minutes, and why 911 matters.

The Letty Owings Center closes after 37 years, capping a year in which Oregon lost roughly 20% of its residential beds for pregnant and parenting people.

Ammonia from liver disease can look exactly like intoxication. A family guide to grades, triggers, lactulose, rifaximin, driving, and when it's an emergency.

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a thiamine-deficiency brain injury. What families notice first, why treatment is so often late, and what recovery looks like.

Kidney injury complicates roughly one in three overdose hospitalizations. What rhabdomyolysis does, what the ICU watches, and how families protect recovery.

A practical guide for brothers and sisters of someone with addiction: your own risk, the roles you take on, how to set limits, and where to find support.

Tobacco kills more people after addiction treatment than alcohol does. What the evidence says about quitting smoking in recovery, and how families can help.

What post-acute withdrawal really is, how long it lasts for each substance, what families mistake it for, and what genuinely helps during the first year.