Changing the Stigma of Addiction
Addiction is a complex brain disease that affects every aspect of an individual’s life. With significant impact on both physical …
Alcohol and Drug Treatment
The Importance of Nutrition During Recovery
Healthy eating habits are important for everyone, but especially crucial for those recovering from addiction. Complete recovery is about restoring …
What is the Difference Between Inpatient and Outpatient Treatment?
Alcohol and substance addiction treatment options vary depending on the place. However, they usually fall into two major categories- inpatient …
Oh there’s no place like rehab for the holidays
10 Reasons to Get Treatment Over the Holidays Admittedly, the idea of spending the holidays in rehab isn’t very appealing initially. But, when contrasted with the reality of drug addiction meeting large-scale family event, it starts to look a little better. The holidays are about love and family, and there is nothing that can make […]
Helping or hurting? How to be there for a loved one with an addiction
Are You Making it Easier for Your Loved One to Abuse Drugs? The families of people with substance use disorders inevitably end up in the difficult position of deciding whether to help their addicted loved one, or to cut them off from support. The disease of addiction infiltrates the brain with manipulative tactics – anything necessary to get […]
If you’ve lost your pink cloud, don’t despair!
Sometimes it feels like sobriety gave way not to a life of freedom and happiness, but to a plethora of unresolved issued waiting to be addressed. This makes sense. Alcohol and drugs were a means of escaping aspects of life which were difficult to handle, and years of perpetual escape allowed troubles to pile up, […]
One pill recovering addicts should still take – their vitamins
The Importance of Nutrition and Diet in Recovery As former disciples of the school of modifying mood by means of chemicals, one might think that addicts and alcoholics in recovery would jump at the opportunity to boost their dopamine levels via their diets. But more often than not, recovering addicts opt for the quick-fix method […]
Recovery to-do list
Tips to Keep You Sane While in Recovery Concrete actions for a better recovery are a welcome change from the spiritual axioms we often hear without quite knowing what to do with them. It’s not that these “sober proverbs” aren’t thought provoking, but profound ideas swimming around in the head can only do so much. […]
Friendship in sobriety – it is what you make of it
Friendship in sobriety is dramatically different from friendship as we once knew it. Before getting sober, friends were partners in crime – people to be sneaky with. Being a good friend meant keeping each others secrets – no matter what they were. In sobriety friendship is something completely different. Sober friends are partners in recovery. […]
Therapy for the subconscious
Talk therapy can be extremely productive, and is an essential part of recovery. However, it can be difficult to access certain topics in a conversational therapy session, because some of our deepest issues are buried in the subconscious mind. Less structured forms of therapy which allow some play to occur have a good chance of […]
