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
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
Separating Behaviors From Thoughts
Ever wondered why we do the things we do? If so, you aren’t alone. Answering the question of why we do what we do has been the unending goal of psychologists, scientists, philosophers, and humans as a whole for centuries.
Choosing Dual Diagnosis Treatment for Young Men
To choose a dual diagnosis treatment plan is to look at two things first: the community which the facility offers, and the lifestyle that’s promoted at the facility. The way we learn to live and the peers and colleagues we
Men’s, Women’s or Co-Ed? Pros and Cons
The debate between whether gender-specific treatment programs or co-ed treatment programs are the right way to go is one debate that doesn’t have a clear winner. Simply put, because addiction is such a personal and complex mental illness, different people
Why Dual-Diagnosis Treatment Matters
Self medication is a real issue for millions of Americans. When it comes to dual diagnosis issues, of a substance use and mental health disorder, many people turn to self medication as a means of coping on their own, most
Is Treatment a Full Time Job?
With partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs, treatment doesn’t have to be a full time job. Treatment itself, however, is not any less intensive or demanding, nor does it produce any less of a result when it comes to
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,
Believing in Ourselves
There are a lot of folks that say that seeing is believing. That’s true, to an extent. There’s plenty of things we want to see to believe. Even more that we have to see to believe. Cops usually have to
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