The Importance of a Support System in Addiction Recovery: How to Be There for Your Loved One
When a loved one decides to face their addiction and begins to do the work, you may wonder what role you can or should play in their recovery. This is especially true if your relationship was fractured during their active
How Does Rehab Work? A Guide for Addiction Recovery
We know more about addiction than ever before, but it is still a very confusing disease, and that’s true even when you are in the middle of the struggle. It’s hard to understand why you continue to use a drug
What Are Triggers in Addiction? Knowing What to Look Out For
Once you realize that you have a problem with drugs or alcohol, you spend time figuring out how to get sober. After you get sober, then your efforts go toward staying sober. Getting sober and staying sober are two entirely
What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Teens?
Cognitive behavioral therapy is problem-oriented talk therapy that is focused on helping individuals help themselves. Cognitive behavioral therapy for teens enables teens to examine their current problems, emotions, and circumstances with an objective adult. Simultaneously, the therapist can help the
Why You Should Go to an Intensive Outpatient Program in Southern California
Once you’ve decided that you have a drug or alcohol problem, you’ll find yourself faced with choosing how and where to get help. Nearly all individuals trying to get sober will begin with detox to safely rid their bodies of
Levels of Care in Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Just as addiction is nuanced and different for just about everyone, so too, are the levels of care for different people. When it comes to dual diagnosis treatment, there are several steps that are taken to ensure each client gets
Individualized Care: Why Your Program Should be Your Program
There’s not one of us on this earth that’s exactly like another. Even identical twins-- though they may share the exact same chemical makeup and physical characteristics as each other-- have drastically different personalities, thoughts, and opinions. As human beings,
Leaving Self-Destructive Behaviors in the Past
On page 137 of the Big Book, the author provides a shockingly detailed description of one man’s demise after two weeks of binge drinking: “After two weeks of drinking, he had placed his toe on the trigger of a loaded
The Importance of Group Therapy
If you only read a part of The Big Book, you may have been startled by an assertion the author makes fairly early on in the reading. “We are powerless over [addiction], and our lives have become unmanageable.” Even as
Becoming Recovery Warriors
Addiction treatment is very much like war. We face an enemy that’s cunning, bold, and uses evasive tactics to try to hit us where it hurts, but each strategy we learn, tool we make, and activity we master in treatment