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
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Accentuate The Positive, Eliminate the Negative, Embrace Mr. In Between
When you get home from medically supervised detox and inpatient rehab, you will start about the business of creating a life set up to support a sober and healthy you. There will be a lot of trial and error. You’ll find that you surprise yourself with how you struggle and where you succeed. There are many ways to go ... Read More
Cocaine on The Brain
Cocaine can sometimes seem like just an edgy party drug, but addiction to cocaine can ultimately be life threatening. That’s why it is important to seek out treatment programs in Florida or near you, as soon as you become aware of your own or your loved one’s addiction. Cocaine causes all kinds of physical problems in ... Read More
Reach for The Stars You Love
When you come back from long term rehab in Florida you want to do anything you can to make sure your life is conducive to living a sober life. You left detox in South Florida knowing there was more hard work to do. You want to be able to build the kind of life that helps set you up for success as you negotiate what it ... Read More
Rationalizing Doesn’t Make It True
In this stressful world, alcohol consumption and drug use have become normalized. With the amount of anxiety and pressure we are under due to unachievable societal expectations, or other life hardships, there’s every expectation that you will attend activities, celebrations, and outings involving large amounts of ... Read More
How Emotional Triggers Can Make or Break Sobriety
After rehab there’s nothing scarier than a possible relapse. Don’t worry, almost everyone feels that fear when they’re reentering the everyday world, full of looming stressors. Trust in what you learned in rehab. But also, keep in mind that the hard work of recovery only began with detox, treatment and rehab. Your ... Read More
More than Just Momentary Fun with Ecstasy
Ecstasy Explained Ecstacy is the kind of drug you think of someone doing in their twenties. Maybe you and your friends buy tickets to a Radiohead concert, you take your MDMA, “it’s so pure”, your friend who scored it says with anticipation in their eyes. You take the pill and the concert starts. The lights swirl, Thom ... Read More
The Cannabis Controversy
There is a lot of conversation and change in the United States right now surrounding how the country approaches marijuana. The controversy is real with some very strong feelings on both sides of the argument. So let's take a closer look at Cannabis so that you can decide for yourself whether it is a miracle drug, or a ... Read More