Going to Rehab While Working
Living the life of a functioning addict is no easy task. Managing the compulsions associated with your addiction, while also maintaining gainful employment and accomplishing social obligations is akin to juggling multiple flaming swords: It’s impossible to sustain. Making the decision to enter a rehabilitation [...]
Ways California is Combating the Opioid Epidemic
What is an epidemic? The terminology alone can conjure up thoughts of social devastation and mass hysteria, such as uncontrollable diseases plaguing society or extinction level occurrences wiping out whole sections of the planet. The reality of an epidemic, however, can prove to be deceivingly [...]
How to Avoid Enabling Your Loved One’s Addiction
Wanting the best for those closest to you is a commendable desire. The compassion and empathy you’ve displayed toward your loved ones has solidified relationships and created a situation in which your family members and closest friends turn to you in times of need for [...]
Medications Used to Treat Alcoholism
You’ve decided it’s time to finally stop drinking and become serious about overcoming your addiction. As you’ll probably find, there are numerous methods out there to help people conquer and cope throughout the healing process. You may have started to read about different rehab programs [...]
Top Benefits of Joining Alcoholics Anonymous
How many times have you felt hopeless, lost or defeated? Like a person wandering the desert with no specific course and a dwindling water supply. As an alcoholic, you want to move toward sobriety, but temptations always seem to set you back no matter how [...]
How to Live with a Recovering Alcoholic
You may have had sleepless nights thinking about the pain your loved one is going through with their alcoholism. It may have been difficult for you to accept and a challenge to find out what you should do next. While it may feel like there's [...]
The Effects of Meth on the Body
Your first fix of meth starts with a deep inhale. You hold your breath for a second and allow the moment to fully sink in. Then it hits you like a bolt of lightning. You can feel your heartbeat soar and blood coursing through your [...]
How to Find Purpose Again After Alcohol Addiction
It's never been a question of if you will achieve your goals, but how far you will exceed them. Your drive and tenacity has always been your trademark - something that defined you - but was still never able to make you whole. Perhaps you [...]
How Meth Addiction Affects the Family
Addictions never exist in a vacuum. The choice of one individual to abuse a drug always produces devastating consequences. It doesn't take long for the ramifications of one's addiction to pry into the innocent, unassuming lives of friends and loved ones. As families of meth [...]
The Benefits of Outpatient Rehab Treatment
When researching rehab treatment programs, one decision you'll face is the type of program you'll choose. The most common form of treatment is residential treatment where you spend up 90 days away from home to overcome your addiction. But what if you have kids or [...]
Why Choose a Non 12-Step Rehab in California?
This is the third and final post in our three-part series on choosing a rehab facility. This article discusses how Ranch Creek Recovery, a non-12-step rehab in California, delivers life-altering addiction recovery through comprehensive, holistic treatment. Catch up on our first post discussing the benefits [...]
4 Cocaine Addiction Warning Signs to Look Out For
On an unassuming night, your life intersected with cocaine and you decided to give it a try. That first bump proved more intoxicating than anything you've ever experienced. That one bump led to many, however, and before you knew it, your life became consumed with [...]
