How to Rebuild Trust in Recovery
Being a recovering person takes a lot of hard work. Being sober goes beyond stopping your drug use; it involves cleaning up the debris that was caused from years of substance abuse. Perhaps the most important fence to mend is rebuilding trust. Trust in recovery is essential to your sobriety. Rebuilding relationships with family, friends, […]
Staying Sober in Social Settings
There is a huge difference between getting sober and staying sober. If you are early in your recovery, you are no doubt doing your best to work on your individual program of recovery. While you may feel confident that you can stay in recovery, the real litmus test is encountering social situations such as family […]
Embracing Spirituality in Addiction Recovery
In many ways, recovery is about restoration and healing. As you grow in your sobriety, you look to put your past in the rearview mirror and embrace your present and future. You need to dig deep into your recovery toolbelt and find the right tool or tools that will help you achieve that goal. One […]
Holistic Approaches to Relapse Prevention: Mind, Body, and Spirit
In many ways, recovery should be seen as a long-term investment. During treatment, you put in many hours addressing the roots of your addiction. While you may have completed a treatment program, it does not mean that your recovery is complete. In fact, the real work in recovery has just begun for you. Truth be […]
How to Find Forgiveness in Recovery
Early recovery can be best described as an emotional rollercoaster. As you start feeling better and gaining mental clarity, you are flooded with many emotions, including guilt, shame, and remorse. While experiencing these feelings is a normal part of early sobriety, being stuck with negative emotions is a detriment to your recovery efforts. How can […]
How to Go About Maintaining Sobriety
Getting sober and staying sober are different things. The road doesn’t end once rehab does. Maintaining sobriety takes nurturing and it’s very much an investment in yourself that pays greater dividends the longer it lasts. Sustained sobriety takes planning, care and attention to both your inner world and the external triggers that will doubt land […]
Is Adderall a Stimulant or Depressant?
Most frequently used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, aka ADHD, Adderall is a very commonly prescribed drug due to the prevalence of ADHD. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that “as of 2016, 6.1 million children aged 2-17 years living in the U.S. had been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder”. Adding that […]
Heroin Addiction and Depression: Are the Two Related?
Short answer: yes, heroin addiction and depression can be related. Taking a step further back from heroin specifically though, it’s safe to say that mental disorders and substance use disorders, in general, are entangled to varying degrees. It’s known as comorbidity or as dual diagnosis/co-occurring disorders. In brief, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) […]
Pros and Cons of Going to a Coed Drug Rehab
Treatment for drug addiction comes in many different forms but one of the most basic choices to make after you’ve decided to seek help is whether you opt for a gender-specific or coed drug rehab – mix-gendered in other words. Because addiction is such an intimately personal experience, there’s no catchall answer or silver bullet. […]
What Happens in Rehab?
Among the most common recommendations for beating addiction is rehab, so well known in fact that it’s become sort of a catchall term nowadays. Naturally, it’s great that so many folks are aware of the inherent benefits that rehab can provide. But while treatment is oft-advised, not everyone knows what happens in a rehab program. […]
