How To Stage An Intervention
When you’re concerned about a friend or loved one who’s struggling with an addiction to alcohol or drugs, it can be hard to know what to do. Understanding how to help someone with substance use disorder can be challenging. Perhaps you’ve tried having one or more heart-to-heart conversations with them and strongly encouraged them to […]
Alcohol & Drug Addiction | Mental Health Services
Mental health and drug and alcohol addiction are sometimes so intertwined it is difficult to determine which one is the leading cause of problems. Other times, our clients don’t have mental health problems, instead, they have undiagnosed alcoholism. Uncovering what issues our clients really face can be a long process. That’s why our program at […]
How Euphoric Recall Leads to Relapse | Alcoholism and Addiction
Euphoric recall has been studied by researchers for years, and many believe it is a leading cause of relapse. Alcoholism and addiction are chronic diseases. This means addiction and alcoholism is incurable, constant, and persistent. In other words, if you stop treating your addiction, relapse is inevitable. Chronic alcoholism can’t be cured by knowledge or […]
4 Key Considerations on How to Choose a Rehab Facility
In 2017, around 20 million people aged 12 and older required special treatment for a substance abuse disorder. Unfortunately, less than 20% of those individuals received any treatment. For substance use disorder, the relapse rate is between 40% and 60%, which is why addicts need to get the necessary help. When an individual embarks on […]
Life After Drug Treatment: 6 Reasons Why an Aftercare Plan for Substance Abuse Works
What you do after you discharge from a drug or alcohol treatment center determines if you will relapse or stay sober. The transitional experience from drug and alcohol treatment to a life of sobriety is almost as important, if not more than the inpatient experience at a treatment center. It is clear that the actions […]
Why Long-Stay Treatment Helps Chronic Relapse
The thought of inpatient or residential treatment can bring all kinds of thoughts to our minds. Whether we’ve experienced an inpatient stay or we’re coming up on our first, the idea of picking up and living in a random place with random people can be jarring and frightening, but the reality of long-stay programs can […]
Addiction and Family: Effects of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism
Effects of Drug Abuse on Family Someone who chronically relapses has trouble staying sober. They continuously fall back into their addiction even if they are trying with all of their willpower to stay away from drugs and alcohol. They are sick with a chronic disease. If left untreated, they will eventually relapse or their addiction […]
A Look into the Brains of Opioid Users While They Attempt to Quit
There are scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) beginning to look into the brains of opioid users, attempting to find answers regarding medicines that treat substance use disorders (SUDs). Specifically, these researchers look at medicines for opioid use disorder (OUD), such as methadone, and recognize the fact that they ease cravings and […]
Incarceration vs. Treatment: Criminalizing Addiction
America imprisons its citizens at a startling rate and often for non-violent crimes. With the most incarcerated individuals per capita of any country in the world, and an epidemic of prison over-crowding, there is a growing call for the release of non-violent drug offenders. Prisons are not equipped to provide adequate treatment for addiction, and […]
8 Ways to Handle Drug and Alcohol Cravings
Dealing with cravings is one of the biggest challenges when recovering from addiction. Considering this, surprisingly little is known about cravings, what causes them, and how long they last. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041083/] We do know they are typically linked to certain cues–people, places, and things we associate with drugs and alcohol. We also know that cravings aren’t […]
