When you start a residential rehab program, it can be a radical departure from what you’re used to. There are rules and regulations that impact everything from when you eat to the music you can listen to. It might sound intimidating, but consider that most of the...
Many drug and alcohol treatment centers include faith-based recovery programming, but they are not necessarily faith-led facilities such as churches, temples, or other types of ministries. However, some ministries do offer addiction treatment through their...
Anyone who has seen or experienced opioid withdrawal understands how intense the cravings and physical symptoms can be. They also understand why it can be so difficult to get through the first days of recovery alone - without relapsing. Hence, why any professional...
A couple of months into 2020, the world very quickly gained an understanding of just how real and just how serious the coronavirus pandemic is. As efforts were directed to preventing the spread of this potentially deadly condition, newly released data leaves us...
At the beginning of 2020, the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism published a press release addressing an increase in alcohol-related deaths in the United States. The opening sentence of this press release states that “nearly 1 million people died from...
There is no benefit to lying about it; what happens when you first stop using drugs might be unpleasant. Especially for someone who has been using drugs for weeks, months, or years, it can take some time for the human body and brain to readjust. This adjustment period...
When looking to get help for a drug or alcohol addiction, there is often talk about “holistic treatment”. However, the way in which one holistic treatment center approaches recovery may not actually be the same as another. In order to ensure you are choosing a...
The medical and pharmaceutical advances over the past 100 years have lead to the development of numerous medications used to manage drug & alcohol detox. Mixed opinions and information have created a great deal of confusion over which medications are actually good...
A drug or alcohol overdose is a severe condition that can lead to permanent organ damage or death. An overdose occurs when a chemical substance is consumed in an amount so great and in a period of time so short that the body cannot process it quickly enough....
When you can see that someone is struggling with alcohol, it is difficult to know what to do. How do you help an alcoholic? A common suggestion is not to enable people who are using drugs, but isn’t the alternative sitting around waiting for them to hit “rock...
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