What You Should Know about Cross Addiction
We’ve all heard the saying ‘having an addictive personality.’ For someone who is dealing with an actual substance use disorder, this can indicate that their behavioral inclinations tend to draw them toward repetitive and addictive impulses. Meaning, they go from one addiction to the next [...]
6 Signs That You Need Addiction Treatment Now
How do you know when it’s time to seek professional help for your addiction? Is it something you just suddenly realize one day or is it a concept that slowly creeps up until you can’t think about anything else? Maybe you have to hit rock [...]
Do Healthcare Professionals Have a Higher Risk of Addiction?
For most healthcare professionals, managing the needs of other people is an everyday responsibility. While some focus on the physical ailments impacting the lives of their patients, others turn their attention to the internal workings of the mind. The manner in which healthcare professionals help [...]
Benefits of Virtual IOP
Finding the strength and confidence to confront your addiction and begin treatment in order to achieve sustained sobriety is both challenging and commendable on a multitude of levels – especially in today’s world. Sobriety requires a level of bravery and personal reflection you must initiate [...]
Can Meditation Boost Your Immune System?
Do you live with nagging voices in your head? What do you do to quiet them? These voices may talk about your failures and the ways in which you have struggled to achieve personal goals. They may tell you to give in to temptation and [...]
What Heroin Does to Your Loved Ones’ Lungs and Respiratory System
For a loved one living with a heroin addiction, the pain and turmoil they have endured has followed them day to day for far too long, and it has caused them to feel lost, isolated, and alone. Your loved one’s substance use disorder is causing [...]
Staying Sober After a Friend or Loved One’s Relapse
Every person’s recovery journey is fundamentally different. Some may struggle to avoid people who trigger their desire to use, while others find staying away from places that encourage or trigger substance use difficult to accomplish. Some find the initial detox phase to be the most [...]
Why You Should Go to Rehab Despite COVID-19
Without question, we are currently living in unprecedented times. Everywhere you turn, it seems as if something new or potentially terrifying is staring you in the face. From quarantines and social distancing mandates to employment rates and an endless, daunting news cycle, finding a way [...]
How to Financially Plan for Addiction Treatment
If you have a loved one who is struggling with addiction, you already know the difficulties they are facing. From negative social influences to constant relapse triggers, every day they are faced with another obstacle to overcome in their journey toward recovery. While the personal [...]
Horticulture Therapy: How it Benefits Addiction Recovery
Finding a way to become more in tune with the world around you offers amazing benefits. It can decrease feelings of stress and anxiety, clear your mind of unnecessary distractions and increase your ability to manage personal hardships. For years, clinical professionals have been encouraging [...]
The Benefits of Sober Bars
We live in a society where alcohol consumption is synonymous with almost every social interaction. Sporting events, family get-togethers, holidays, intimate gatherings – you name it and odds are alcohol is involved. In contrast to this overwhelming tendency to include alcohol in every event, a [...]
How to Help a Loved One Avoid St. Patrick’s Day Parties
St. Patrick’s Day is a time for celebration. It signifies the harsh winter has passed and spring is right around the corner. It provides people the opportunity to gather with their family and friends to celebrate a rich cultural tradition and longstanding custom. While everyone [...]
