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
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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.
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Emotional Intelligence 101
You can’t just ignore the way you’re feeling. I can’t tell you how many people I know who just shove their emotions down. It’s understandable, it’s the way they were taught to be. For a long time western society has made it clear that it is “impolite” to talk about anything that makes our emotions spike or dip. We ... Read More
Two Things You Need To Succeed In Recovery
Are you just back from medically supervised alcohol detox, or maybe you were at a long term drug rehab in Florida somewhere. You may feel kind of scared, nervous about how things will go and how you’ll make sure you can handle the complicated emotions, the feelings that come along with getting home and starting over. ... Read More
When Gambling Addiction Meets Alcohol Addiction
Researchers have noticed a high correlation between problem gambling and alcoholism. This probably comes as no surprise to anyone who has interacted with a person who has a gambling disorder. With gambling terminals built into bar tops and cocktails waitresses circulating through the gaming floor, casinos can be ... Read More
Here’s What You Should Know About Underage Drinking
More and more teenagers are drinking alcohol these days. By the time they graduate from high school, almost all adolescents report having tried alcohol at some point before the age of fourteen and that they acquire the substance from other students at school or the parents of their peers. Every year thousands of ... Read More
It’s Time We Understand that Addicts are People Too
Our society has an incredible bias against people who are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. The stigma permeates through pop culture, politics, and everyday life. If we want to make drug addiction a thing of the past, let's start by reducing this stigma. The Crow My first exposure to heroin was via a 1994 ... 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
The Truth About Opioids and Opiates
These days you can hardly escape reporting about the opioid crisis in the United States. They call it an epidemic because of the high number of casualties as a result of widespread opioid prescription, availability and abuse. Overdose is a real problem as opioids attach themselves to the opioid receptors in the brain. ... Read More
