After leaving an FHE’s Florida alcohol detox and treatment center it’s important to share your addiction recovery story. One of the key tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 step recovery programs patterned after it is the importance of sharing one’s story. There is tremendous power in gathering together to hear ... Read More
Staying in Touch After Rehab
Your time in FHE Health detox and rehab centers in Florida will always be a turning point in your life. As you leave our detox and wellness center and face your life sober, don't neglect to take an important resource with you: the people you met while you were here. Everyone needs the support and reinforcement of ... Read More
Untangling the Web of Guilt vs Shame
Addiction produces bad decisions, decisions that hurt ourselves and our loved ones. Part of recovery at FHE’s rehab in Florida is learning what it means to amending those wrongs, but processing the emotions that are entangled in those past choice can be a very difficult knot to untie. At our sober living houses Florida ... Read More
Jobs Most At Risk from Drug Overdoses
Anyone taking an drug is at risk of becoming dependent on it. And people in any job description—as well as the unemployed—are susceptible to addiction. However some jobs are much more at risk than others. The information below is based on data assembled by the National Occupational Mortality Surveillance program from ... Read More
Heightened Risk of Overdose for Construction Workers
A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer written by Aubrey Whelan describes challenges specific to construction workers when it comes to opioid addiction and overdose. The article focuses on a union head's struggle after the loss of eight members to overdose in the last 18 months. The Problem Workers of ... Read More
Small Changes Make a Big Difference
You go to the doctor and they write you a script for some medication. You go home and swallow a few pills. When the bottle runs out, you might refill it once, or that may just be the end of your treatment. If the medicine did it's job, you may never talk to your doctor about that particular ailment again. This is how ... Read More
Opioid Addiction in Pregnant Women Increasing
Between 1999 and 2014 the rate of pregnant women addicted to heroin or prescription painkillers more than quadrupled, severely spiking the need for opioid addiction treatment in pregnancy. This alarming fact was reported by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ... 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