Drug rehabilitation has been designed to assist people in recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. How intense and lengthy the service for any treatment will be depends on the requirement of the person concerned. There is no one single treatment that
It affects people differently. Some withdraw, while others become angry and irritable. This poses a serious challenge for individuals recovering from addiction. When you’re recovering from opioid addiction and living alone, loneliness can creep into your daily life in many ways. It makes it harder...
After learning of her husband Clay's addiction to porn, Susan Allen restored her heart in this kind of community through the help of other hurting sisters in Christ. Before long, Susan began leading her own groups and soon created a nonprofit organization called Avenue that distributes ...
?The Serenity Prayer: How it Can Help Your Recovery fromAddiction God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And thewisdomto know the difference. These days, a lot of people have heard of the Serenity Prayer. Anyone who has...
Inpatient and outpatient treatment programs make use of various therapeutic techniques to treat drug andalcohol addiction. An individualized treatment plan based on the patient’s condition will determine the therapy or therapies to be used. Below are the behavioral therapies typically applied in outpatie...
We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits—and how new discoveries can help us kick the habit.
Phone addiction is one of thebiggest non-drug addictions[1]in human history. Studies show thatexcessive phoneuse is linked toprocrastination,suicide[2](example[3]),spoilt sleep[4],food and water neglect[5],headaches[6],lower productivity[7],unstable relationships[8], poor physical health (eye...
Stress is a common issue among people in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. Learn effective ways to manage your stress during and after treatment.
Sugar addiction is serious because it can really damage your health. Doctors say that we should eat food which is healthy such as fresh fruits and vegetables, and that we shouldn’t eat a lot of sugar, fat or fast food. But sugar addicts can’t follow this advice. They know they must...
In addition, you need to realize that supporting someone’s drug use does nothing to solve the underlying issues that led to the addiction. Instead, it makes those issues worse. Instead of trying to force someone to stop using drugs, try to encourage him or her to seek treatment. This may...