Seeking out accountability after rehab may feel risky. If your old life of addiction taught you anything it’s that you can’t trust anyone. If you learn anything in your addiction recovery in Florida, hopefully it’s that you must trust someone in order to be healthy. You must be able to be transparent and accountable to ... Read More
Learning Center
FHE Health is dedicated to educating the American public—especially individuals, families, and communities—about mental health and substance abuse topics. In our Learning Center, you'll find articles on alcoholism, substance abuse, behavioral and mental health, and other treatment-related issues. Our articles are written both for the person in need of treatment as well as loved ones seeking more information. We also provide information for those who have gone through treatment and are building a new life in recovery.
The Virtues of Accountability
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
Money Problems and Addiction
There is almost no other kind of everyday stress worse than financial stress. It can plague you, creditors calling your phone all day long. It can haunt your dreams. People have been known to go far as sell themselves, even other people to pay off debts. It’s an age old problem. The poor and financially burdened ... Read More
Dealing with Work Stress and Staying Sober
Coming back to work after going through medically supervised alcohol detox, drug recovery treatment, and long term rehab in Florida, you can be sure anyone would be apprehensive, even scared. So don’t feel bad when you’re not jumping up and down as you leave rehab. It can be scary to get back out there into the ... Read More
How to Fight Loneliness, Smile All The Time
There’s this Wilco song called “How to Fight Loneliness”. Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer strums his guitar and pours the lyrics out. “How to fight loneliness, smile all the time, shine your teeth to meaningless, and sharpen them with lies”. I take this song to be one of bitterness. Tweedy is positing that the only way ... Read More
Are You Nervous Before Going Through Detox?
The first thing you need to know about detoxing, from any addictive substance at all, is that you need to do medically supervised alcohol or drug detox. Going through withdrawal from a drug or from alcohol on your own, or even under the supervision of well meaning loved ones, can result in horrible medical problems and ... Read More
Withdrawal Symptoms Experienced When Quitting Amphetamines
Amphetamine addiction can wreak havoc on a person’s physical and psychological wellbeing, not to mention wreck their relationships and career. Amphetamines are sometimes taken as a means of advancing people’s productivity in school or work, but it’s a slippery slope from the moment speed is advancing your career and ... Read More