Cottonwood Tucson Awarded on Newsweek’s America’s Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2023 List Tucson, AZ, October 16, 2023 – Cottonwood Tucson has been recognized on Newsweek’s list of America’s Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2023. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was...Read More

Substance Use Disorders and Wealth  Mental health and substance use disorders impact people with wealth just as much as anyone else. Many people imagine that people who have the benefit of generational wealth or a trust don’t have a care in the world, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, it can...Read More

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word addiction? Most people will say “drugs”. Sometimes people jokingly refer to their “addiction” to a television show or something outside the expected realms of drugs and alcohol. But the truth is that addiction is not limited to substances alone and process...Read More

Many people wonder “what is the recovery lifestyle?” when they initially hear about sobriety and what that might look like for those actively practicing it. Before you ask yourself what the recovery lifestyle is, you must first really understand what recovery is. What is Recovery ? If you ask ten different people what recovery is,...Read More

Trauma affects the brain in many ways, perhaps the most important longer term effect is the creation of triggers and associations towards other stimuli in life that cause a person to unnecessarily experience a fight or flight response. Trauma is an integral part of the human experience. Every one of us has experienced trauma in...Read More

Therapy for trauma can help enable breakthroughs in trauma recovery. EMDR, CBT, DBT, and somatic experiencing are some of the main treatment modalities that are in use today. Unresolved trauma can manifest in a person’s life in a myriad of different ways. Two different people can have very different responses to similar trauma in fact....Read More

Every year it seems a worrying new street drug enters the public consciousness. Xylazine is the street drug the Internet is buzzing about at the moment. New street drug compounds are alarming enough without the misinformation and rumors that often seem to accompany them. This article from Cottonwood Tucson clears the air by providing crucial...Read More

Alcohol Use Disorders on the Rise in the U.S. It seems like the U.S. has always had a rocky relationship with drugs and alcohol. Alcoholism in America became enough of a problem in the 19th century that it fueled a fiery temperance movement that ultimately resulted in Prohibition in 1920. In the 1980s crack cocaine...Read More