Completing addiction treatment is a major step on the road to recovery, but it’s only the beginning of a lifelong journey. Recovery will present a number of challenges, and handling relapse triggers is probably one of the toughest aspects of maintaining your sobriety. Summertime can be a minefield of triggers. With beach parties, outdoor music […]
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If you’re anything like the ‘active addiction’ version of me, you might think that drug rehabs and addiction treatment centers are only for the rich and famous and other people with seemingly “fake” problems. I was very ignorant and naive. I knew I was getting closer and closer to death — the local Emergency Room
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Most of the time when people think of a 12-step fellowship, they think of Alcoholics Anonymous, however, there’s actually a 12-step group for just about any addiction out there, including: Narcotics Anonymous Codependents Anonymous Al-Anon, Nar-Anon, etc. These fellowships are meant for the loved ones of addicts. Some people attend for different reasons. While some
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Fentanyl is an opioid that acts on the brain the same way traditional opioids do, like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and heroin. To over-simplify the definition, fentanyl is basically a really, really, really strong opiate. It’s roughly 30-50 times stronger than heroin, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). A lethal dose of fentanyl about the size
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Battling substance abuse and addiction is a struggle that is extremely difficult to face on your own, and is never encouraged. Entering a drug or alcohol treatment center is the first step in the process, and we strive to include families in the treatment process as much as our client is interested in. Typically in
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Getting clean and entering recovery is hard; if it were easy then everyone would be doing it. The first year can feel unbearable if you’re not doing it for the right reasons. However, if you truly want to get clean and sober, each little milestone will make you feel like you are unbeatable and can
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When it comes to abusing mind-altering substances, the danger is par for the proverbial course. After all, it’s all right there in the term: They’re “mind-altering” substances, meaning that that alter — or even hinder — the ability of the brain to function normally. Even if isolated to the brain, the neurological repercussions of substance
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Addiction is a chronic relapsing disease of the brain that affects virtually the entire demographic spectrum. Men and women of all ages and from all walks of life have fallen prey to the addictive power of alcohol and drugs. Moreover, addiction is a unique disease in that it affects family members and loved ones as
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Addiction is an extremely complex, nearly enigmatic disease that we’ve only recently begun to understand. In fact, it used to be that addiction was largely seen as a moral issue with individuals who suffered from substance abuse problems considered to merely be bad people. Fortunately, years of research and observation has shown us that’s not
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