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Sober Living – Life After Drug Rehab
Living a sober life during rehab is easier because you have all the support and tools needed to get through each day. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not suggesting recovery is easy, but I wonder: Once you leave rehab, what’s it like? Imagine a world in which you can focus your energy on positive things—like enjoying [...]
Clinical Treatment After Residential Rehab—Does It Make A Difference?
You did great! Everyone—especially you, is very proud of you. You made a commitment to get into an arduous recovery process, and you accomplished that. You toughed it out even when it got tougher, when all you really wanted to do was simply quit and get back to your old ways. It would have been [...]
How Does Partial Hospitalization Work
Partial Hospitalization has been a growing concept for the past 20 years. Used in a variety of therapeutic environments, it is an application meant to satisfy both mental patients and substance abuse patients. Here’s the way it works. Since no two people are exactly the same, the path to recovery needs to vary as well. [...]
Treatment Over Imprisonment? National Drug Policy Looks to Europe
Continue to do the same thing, the same way— over and over— expecting different results: that is the definition of insanity. But it’s also been the basis of our drug policy. Let me explain the gravity of our loss. The number of drug prisoners in the U.S. is greater than the number of people behind [...]
Inspirational Message of the Week:
On Memorial Day, remember what you went through starting the recovery from addiction. Remember the wounds that have healed and the relationships that have been recovered. While many Americans may be celebrating Memorial Day this weekend by drinking and partying, remember what it really stands for: For tragedies and sacrifices that we have experienced [...]
Drug Rehab: How to Look and Get Support for Your Drug Addiction
In all situations involving addictions there are usually at least two people involved. The addict is the first, while the other is the person striving to help the addict get better. The addict’s parents, brothers, sisters, friends, wife or husband, are so emotionally bound that they practically live for the happiness of the one suffering [...]
