Methamphetamine is a potent illicit stimulant drug that can be very dangerous to addicts and to those surrounding them. When someone is addicted to meth it can change who they are and that affects their entire community. The drug effects the addict’s central nervous system, their dopamine and serotonin receptors. With ... Read More
Help For Loved Ones
When your loved one begins exhibiting signs of substance abuse or increasing mental health issues it can leave you feeling helpless and desperate. These feelings are not uncommon and we’ve seen them all as we’ve treated thousands of patients and their families. The articles found here focus on tips and advice on supporting a loved one who is struggling with a disorder or has begun treatment and needs support.
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When a Loved One Has PTSD: A Reading List for Family Members
How to Help Someone with PTSD
How to Know if Your Loved One Uses Meth
How to Talk to Your Loved one About Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse
It can be hard when you suspect that someone you care about has an eating disorder, especially if you think they may also be dealing with some kind of drug or alcohol addiction. The two disorders not only present and act in very similar ways, but they are also frequently co-occurring. If these two disorders occur ... Read More
Family Solutions and Addiction Recovery
While some of the stigma of recovery has been reduced in recent years, television and movies often show a very individualistic form of treatment that is not always the case. The image of the lifestyle of people addicted and how they recover may be perfectly accurate for some and very different from others. This ... Read More
Send A Friend Some Love
Make a Care Package or Write a Letter and Send It To a Friend Maybe it seems counterintuitive but when you get back from intensive inpatient treatment and you’re feeling nervous about reconnecting with the outside world, and the people you love, an easy way to ease back into it is to start by picking someone you love ... Read More
Addicted with an Unsupportive Family
There are all kinds of families out there. As society gets more comfortable with gender and sexuality stereotypes bending and breaking, we see many different ways to define “family”. It’s great because there are so many people out there who have been abandoned by family, or whose relationships have deteriorated with ... Read More
How to Win Back Your Kid’s Trust
You’re getting ready to go back home from your medically supervised alcohol detox, and drug rehabilitation in South Florida. Rehab was intense and life changing. You really delved into your therapy and discovered so much of who you are and learned more about what your triggers are and how you are vulnerable to stress ... Read More
Surviving the Death of a Loved One
Staying sober when you get home from intensive inpatient treatment for addiction, or even after an outpatient detox center is an incredible amount of work, and it takes a lot of resilience and determination. In order to succeed in your sober living, you plan. You think about and plan for all of the hard parts of life. ... Read More
Stay Calm and Support Your Addicted Teen
You’ve just found out that your teenager has an addiction to drugs or alcohol, or maybe both. Maybe you caught them with the substance, maybe you even caught them high or drunk. Hopefully they came to you for help voluntarily. Either way there are some things you must keep in mind to get through this incredibly ... Read More
