Drug, Alcohol and Mental Health Treatment
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
Addiction is no respecter of persons. It doesn’t pick and choose its victims, it wreaks havoc on every life it afflicts. Unfortunately, all too often the wreckage looks like relationships, old and new, close and distant, lost to those moments of brief distraction, those too-short moments when you reached and postured ... Read More
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
Did you go through the the Dare program as a kid? At my school Dare meant that we had a puppet that “visited” our classroom once a week and told us foreboding stories about drug and alcohol abuse. In the end of the program a cop came and talked to our class and made us sign a note solemnly swearing that we wouldn’t ... Read More
Avoiding people as a recovering addict can be dangerous behavior. Upon their return from a medically supervised alcohol detox, addiction recovery treatment, and inpatient rehab, many healing addicts try to avoid those who love them, their friends and family, due to the shame that addiction can bring along with it. ... Read More
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
If you know someone who has struggled with addiction, or you have struggled with it yourself you may already know how stress can affect the person prone to drug or alcohol abuse. You may know the way stress can lead back to the substance that so easily controls an addict, especially when they are vulnerable, even after ... Read More
Every year thousands of people die in car crashes as a result of someone’s irresponsible refusal to hand over their keys to a designated driver. They drink or get high and step into the driver's seat like it’s safe, like they are not endangering themselves and even more so, everyone around them on the road. ... Read More
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